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Kōrero: Unions and employee organisations

Strike pay

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Strike pay

The Seamen’s Union membership book of Auckland seaman James Wylie shows he received strike pay during October and November 1890, when New Zealand wharves were crippled by a widespread strike. During long strikes, unions try to support their members out of their own funds, and funds donated by other unions.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Herbert Otto Roth Collection (PAColl-4920)

Reference: 94-106-79/14

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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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Erik Olssen, Unions and employee organisations – Gain and loss, 1880–1890, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/22258/strike-pay (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Erik Olssen, i tāngia i te 4 February 2010.