BOAT BUILDERS' PAY.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 148, 22 June 1917, Page 8

BOAT BUILDERS' PAY.

INCREASE OF WAGES GRANTED. 9\ie Conciliation Council sat the whole of yesterday considering the dispute filed by tho Auckland Ship and Yacht and Boat Builders' Union of Workers, which asked for pay at the rate of 2/ per hour. Finally a settlement was reached on the following lines: Present pay of 1/ti per hour for shipwrights, and 1/4J per hour for boat builders, ti> be increased by a wai -bonus of 2d per hour until three months after the cessation of hostilities. The rate of pay of 10/ a day for docking and undocking vessels in the Calliope Dock lias also been increased by a war bonus of II) per cent. Wages of apprentices in the lirst year remain as in the old award, namely. 10/ a week. Second year rates have been increased from I'2/li to 15/ a week; third year. 17/0 to 20/; fourth year. 22/0 to 215/; tiftli year, 30/ to 3.">/- Hours of work, overtime, holidays, suburban work, fools, payment of wages, piecework, preference, and underrate workers remain as in the old award. Journeymen engaged on country work are allowed 20/ a week for board and lodging as against J.")/ in the old award. No payment is to be made for travelling at night, providing the worker has already been paid by the employer for his previous full day's work. Dirty! work is to be paid at the rate of 1/ a, day extra. The clause relating to exemptions has been referred to the Arbitration Court. 'Journeymen or apprentices working with pumice, charcoal, or silicate in connection with the insulation work in any confined or unventilnted space, are to be paid 3d an hour extra while so working. Workers employed ill freezing chambers cr cool storage rooms where the temperature is 40 degrees or less are to be allowed 10 minutes' spell after two hours have been worked continuously witliou? any. reduction of wages. The term of the award in for two years, from duly 2 next. A hearty vote of thanks was accorded Mr. T. Harle Giles, Conciliation t'ommisi.;oncr, for his able assistance.