Kōrero: Strikes and labour disputes

General wage order protest meeting, 1968

General wage order protest meeting, 1968

Union delegates meet at the Wellington Trades Hall on 21 June 1968 to plan a protest against the government’s ‘nil general wage order’ for that year. For the first time, the Arbitration Court ordered that wage levels would remain unchanged from the previous year, despite high inflation and rising prices. Unions around the country held protests against this decision.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PAColl-7327)
Reference: EP/1968/2601A

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Te tuhi tohutoro mō tēnei whārangi:

Mark Derby, 'Strikes and labour disputes - The decline of the arbitration system', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/photograph/20501/general-wage-order-protest-meeting-1968 (accessed 29 March 2024)

He kōrero nā Mark Derby, i tāngia i te 11 Mar 2010, updated 1 Mar 2016