LOCAL BODY LABOURERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 30, 5 February 1925, Page 15

LOCAL BODY LABOURERS.

y . . IN THL WAIKATO AREA. NEW AWARD MADE. (By Telegraph.— Own Correspondent.) HAMILTON, this day. A meeting of the Conciliation Council was held at Hamilton yesterday to consider the application of the General Labourers' Union for a new award covering labour employed by borough council? and harbour boards. An agreement was reached on all points in dispute substantially on the lines of the existing award, with the following exceptions:—County councils, river, town and drainage boards will not now come under the award, which will apply only to borough councils and harbour boards. The minimum rates of wages agreed upon are: General labourers, including quarryraen and yardmen, 1/10 per hour: men working in shafts or tunnels, 1/11 per hour: sanitary drain layers, 1/11 \ per hour: machine-drill men, shot-firers. tool-sharpeners. 2/ per hour; sanitary carters, 17/4 per shift; stokers, 15/4 per shift. Where men are permanently employed weekly on all classes of work" required by the local body the wages shall be £4 8/ per week. Overlime is fixed at, time and a half for the tirst four hours, thereafter double rates. Travelling time outside a radius of two miles from a point to be agreed upon between the. parties is to be paid for. provided the worker does not live within two miles of the place where the work is to be performed.