GROCERS' ASSISTANTS' AWARD.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 December 1916, Page 4

GROCERS' ASSISTANTS' AWARD.

THE PREFERENCE CUUGI'. An interesting feature 01 the Assistants' Award, which has wcently l>een confirmed by the Arbitration Court, is the change made in cinnsc tion with the preference clause. It m proposed that an employer should not under any circumstances be liable for a breach of the preference clauses, hut this proposal was not agreed to. Tho preference clause, as included in tho award, provides that should an employer engrfge a non-unionist and the latter fails to become a unionist within U days, the employer is required to dismiss such worker if requested to do so by the Union, provided* there is then a member of the t'nion equally qualified to perforin the particular work required to be done, and the latter is ready and willing to undertake the work. Tho provisions of ttiis clause shall operate. only if and so long a3 the rules of the Union shall permit any worker coming within the scope of this award of good character and sober habit* io become 1 member of the Union upon payment of an entrance fee not esreeditig is upon a written application without ballot or other election, and to co::ii?!i? » member upon payment of subsequent contributions not 'exceeding tld per week. Unionists and non-unionists are urged to work together in harmony and unison.