A UNION OF CLERKS.
.AWARD TO BE ASKED FOE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Monday Night. The Auckland Clerks Industrial l : niOii I (ilip first of its kind in New Zealand) Ivi* been registered with a membership of about forty. A movement is On foot to form a similar aniou in Clirislcimtvli and Napier. Tiie union is designed to embrace all classes of clerical workers, and, after it has gained strength, application will be. made to the Arbitration Court for -ail award. It is understood preference for unionists will be asked foi, and that the Court will be requested to make 110 distinction between sexes in awarding wages. Tho unionists allege that t'he increased employment of girls as ledger clerks ha* lowered men's 'wages, and think Iha lif tile same wages had to be paid to both sexes the men wou'd get preference. It is stated that the average wage of junior clerks in Auck--1 land is £1 5s to ill 15s, and of ledger I ch rks £2 to £2 10s.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19091110.2.44
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 235, 10 November 1909, Page 4
Word count
Tapeke kupu
171A UNION OF CLERKS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 235, 10 November 1909, Page 4
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in