Photo by Jane Dawber.
Celebrating women's suffrage day and highlighting
continuing pay disparity between women and men in Dunedin, on
Saturday morning are (from front left) Council of Trade Unions
Otago convener Glenda Alexander, Billie (2) and Hugh (5)
Askerud, (second row:), Beryl Maultby, Labour Party member, Cee
Payne, of the NZ Nurses Organisation, Ann Galloway, of the
Service and Food Workers Union, (back row:) Heather Grimwood,
Labour Party member, Lorraine Clark, Wilma Graham, Barry
Simpson, of the Post Primary Teacher's Association and Rex
Askerud of the Public Service Association.
The group held a morning tea outside the Dunedin Railway
Station as part of Pay Equity Challenge Coalition protests.
Mrs Alexander's cake is missing 12%, mimicking the gap
between women's and men's pay.
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