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CARPENTRY TRAINEES UNION MEMBERSHIP Parliamentary Reporter WELLINGTON, Nov. 12. Did the Minister of Rehabilitation, Mr Skinner, approve of attempts which were being made to compel carpentry trainees under the rehabilitation scheme to join the Carpenters’ Union, asked Mr G. F. Sim (Oppn., Waikato) in notice of a question to the Minister in the House of Representatives to-day. In a note to his question, Mr Sim said that although these men were, in effect, apprentices to the trade, and although there was nothing in their contract to require them to join the union, officials of the union had been attempting to coerce them into joining and had asserted that their action had the approval of the Minister. Mr Skinner, who asked leave to answer the question immediately, said it was the first he had heard of the matter. It was a fact, however, that ex-servicemen in the last 12 months of their training had to become members of the relevant union. For the first 12 months they were paid at trainees’ rates of pay, but in the last 12 months they received award rates. When they received all the benefits of award conditions they should join the union
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26617, 13 November 1947, Page 10
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199COERCION ALLEGED Otago Daily Times, Issue 26617, 13 November 1947, Page 10
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