CORPORATION EMPLOYEES' UNION

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 296, 10 September 1919, Page 3

CORPORATION EMPLOYEES' UNION

i SOME FRESH DEMANDS. A meetimr. attended by over three hundred employees, and representative of all branches of the corporation service, was held on Monday evening in the Clyde O.uav schoolroom. Proposals for the betterment of the service were discussed, and a programme of demands was drawn up to be forwarded to tho Mayor and councillors for. their consideration.. The greatest enthusiasm and unanimity prevailed throughout, and it was decided to form a Municipal Employees' Union, to embrace all branches of the Wellington corporation employees. The demands referred to are as follow:— : . (1) That all employees be given the riirht to provide- hot water for lunch m council time. ;2) Where.gangs are working sanitary Drovfeions be made, also shelter in wet weather: all wet time to bo paid for. i 3) Where men must vCrk out m wet weather oilskins and leggings to be provided annually; also where the work is of a dirtv nature overalls to be provided. U) All overtimi and Sunday work to be paid for at double time rates. (5) Fourteen days' annual leave, besides statutory holidays, on full pay. (6) Anv employee who may meet with an accident or is taken ill through following his employment to be paid full timo. council to have right to send own doctor. ' (7) Weighbridge-keeper to bo given samo status as other local woighbridgekeenors. (8) Dining-room to be provided in corporation yard as required by Factory Act. (9) Simple ambulance outfit to bo provided in rard. (1(1) A minimum wage of £i per week, nlus sunerannuation.