NO OVERTIME

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 222, 18 September 1919, Page 7

NO OVERTIME

ANOTHER 300 MEN DECIDE. IRONWORKERS' DISPUTE UNSETTLED. The dispute about the non-payment ot bonus with overtime to ironworkers was considered last night by a special general meeting of -the General Labourers' Union, which includes as members practically all the ironworks employees other than those in the three professional iron unions, and it was then decided that no ironworkers' assistants -hall toil for more than 47 hours a week 'until overtime is paid, plus the bonuß of 2id an hour, and that no workers shall make any individual agreements -with employers, this matter to be settled by the union delegate and the employers only. This is the same stand as the skilled workers have taken, for they are refusing to work overtime, and will not recognise private agreements between employers and workers in breach of this decision.

The sections of the General Labourers' Union directly affected by the dispute are the furnacemen, men on marine boiler repair work or erection work or engaged assembling imported machinery, machinists not covered by other awards, assistants to tinsmiths and sheet metal workers, strikers, yardmen, sutlers, and other general labourers about ironworks. The estimated number of these is approximately 300, making with the GOO or so members of the three professional unions, about 900 men concerned with the dispute. Organising secretaries for these people were instructed by the meeting to act in conjunction with the Allied Iron Trades Unions.