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Wages

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

'Labour market "flexibility" means ...', n.d. [1980s - 1990s?]

 Item
Identifier: dlpc00162
Scope and Contents

A laminated colour poster featuring four cartoon-style characters and situations, drawn by Bob Kerr. Text states: 'Flexibility means working late at night for no extra pay, working in the weekends for no extra pay, and having no protection! Join your Union fighting low pay.'

Handwritten on the back of the poster is: 'T.U.E.A', alongside a 'With the compliments of PSA' sticker.

Another copy of this poster can be found in the folder 'Untitled'.

Dates: n.d. [1980s - 1990s?]

'Labour market "flexibility" means ...', n.d. [1980s - 1990s?]

 Item
Identifier: dlpc00084
Scope and Contents

A laminated colour poster featuring four cartoon-style characters and situations, drawn by Bob Kerr. Text states: 'Flexibility means working late at night for no extra pay, working in the weekends for no extra pay, and having no protection! Join your Union fighting low pay.'

Handwritten on the back of the poster is: 'T.U.E.A. Box 6645, Wgtn, (04) 852 938'.

Another copy of this poster can be found in the folder 'General Union 2'.

Dates: n.d. [1980s - 1990s?]

Paybook

 Item
Identifier: clels4
Scope and Contents

A record of soldiers’ wages from 1938 to 1947. The pay is presented columns of pounds, shillings and pence. Also included is a tutorial for the card game ‘Forty-Fives’.

Dates: Collection covers ca 1960-2010

'The Wage Increase Is Not A Fair Deal', n.d. [1970s - 1980s?]

 Item
Identifier: dlpc00178
Scope and Contents Laminated black and white poster stating that 'The Wage Increase Is Not A Fair Deal'. Smaller print text in the middle of the poster is split into three columns titled 'Company Profits Soar', 'Share Prices Soar' and 'Spending Power Of Wages Collapses', and explains perceived inconsistencies between the rise in company profits and wage increases. Text at the bottom of the poster states: 'Support your Union, the FOL [Federation of Labour] and the CSU [Combined State Unions] in their claim for...
Dates: n.d. [1970s - 1980s?]

'"We Can't Manage Under National" Say Low Paid', [1984?]

 Item
Identifier: dlpc00184
Scope and Contents Laminated poster encouraging readers to vote Labour because workers can't manage financially under National. Printed in black, red and white and including a small black and white photograph of a man's face in front of a photocopied pay slip from 3 June 1984. Text states: 'This is the pay slip of a married man with two children. He is a qualified cook and is paid $4.69 an hour. For 40 hours work a week he gets $156.05, can you raise a family on that? Thousands of New Zealand Workers are in...
Dates: [1984?]

'What Will Award Restructuring Mean To You?', n.d. [1980s?]

 Item
Identifier: dlpc00058
Scope and Contents Poster asking readers to think about award restructuring. Pink and white text on a blue and white background. Text states: 'What Will Award Restructuring Mean To You? Find out what award restructuring will mean to you, your career, skills and wages. Meetings happening now. PSA BRIEF, Authorised by Kevin Crawshaw, General Secretary, Public Service Association of SA Inc. 82 Gilbert Street, Adelaide. Phone (08) 212 1255'. Also includes the PSA logo of two hands shaking in the dot of the...
Dates: n.d. [1980s?]

'Would You Work For Wages Like This?', n.d. [1980s?]

 Item
Identifier: dlpc00224
Scope and Contents Laminated colour poster encouraging readers to 'Oppose Apartheid, Throw a picket line around South Africa!' Includes a photocopy of a payslip of an employee of 'The South African Bata Shoe Company', showing a weekly pay of 30.20 Rand. Also includes the text: 'Would You Work For Wages Like This?, Black South African workers are enslaved under apartheid! Hart Workers Branch, P.O. Box 2436, Auckland.'Sticker on rear of poster states 'This poster is the property of the: Trade Union...
Dates: n.d. [1980s?]