NO OVERTIME.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 73, 27 March 1940, Page 5

NO OVERTIME.

LOADING PRODUCE. CHAMBER HANDS' DECISION. VERBAL AGREEMENT ALLEGED At a luncheon meeting to-day chamber hands employed by the Auckland Farmers' Freezing Company decided not to work overtime in future, or until such time as a verbal agreement which they allege was made bFtweeii the men and the employers is carried out. The chamber hands are employed at an hourly rate of pay and their award provides for a 44-hour week. They allege that about three weeks ago it was agreed that on occasions when overtime was worked it should be on a minimum of two hours. That agreement was honoured, the men say, until one evening last week when the men were called baick to work overtime, but instead of working two hours or more they were knocked off when they had worked an hour and a quarter. The nature of the work involved in the dispute is the loading of dairy produce and about 100 men are concerned. When the matter was mentioned to Mr. A. G. Brown, manager of the com-

pany, this afternoon, he would make no comment other than to say that no arrangement of any kind had been made by the men outside the terms of the award under which the men were working.