"CHARS" MAY STRIKE
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Requests Made to Dunedin Hospital R1SES WANTED
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HUJNEDIN, TMs Day. Charladies may be in demand here nexf week. After learning that their sisters reeeive more pay at the new post office, 23 hospital chars have written ' the board demanding inereases, also two weeks' holiday on full pay and timo and a-half for public holidays and Sun: day work. It is stated that if their demands are ; not complied with charladies will stage a walk-out strike on Monday. This, • however, is not mentioned in the letter of demand and the board 's seeretary stated that 'a reply could not be given till the board meets on Friday. A later message says that the threatened strike by women eleaners at the hospital failed to materiaHse. The medical superintendent stated that although wage increAses were demanded, th© eleaners assured him that there was no truth in the report that they ihtended to walk out to enforce their dexnands.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 78, 19 April 1937, Page 6
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