WATERSIDE LABOUR.
NEW WAGES CLAIMS.
HIGHER PAY SOUGHT. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) , CHRISTCHURCH, Friday. Substantial increases in wages are sought in the proposed new agreement between the New Zealand Waterside Workers' Federation and the employers of waterside labour, which is now being placed before the unions at the various ports for ratification. It is proposed that the ordinary hourly rate should be increased from 2/4 to 2/8, and that extra payments for special classes of cargo, such as meat, phosphate, sulphur and other cargo classed as dirty or dangerous should be from 3d to 1/ an hour. It is asked that all Saturday work should be classed as overtime, payment being 3/4 an hour for work from 8 a.m. until noon and 5/4 an hour, with a minimum of three hours, for work between 1 p.m. and o p.m., plus any extra payments due for special cargo as already mentioned. The increase, it is proposed, should be made retrospective to October 1 last yea^.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 7, 9 January 1937, Page 16
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