BEEF-BONING RATES
COURT SKTTMSS DISPUTE A dispute having arisen between the freezing works employees and the Auckland Farmers' Freezing Company, Thomas Borthwick and Sons, and the Westfield Freezing ; Co., and having been referred to the Arbitration Court, the Court gave judgment on Monday in Wellington. | The workers claimed adjustment i of rates of payment owing to I prime ox and cow beef now being boned before export. This boning was being done to conserve shipping space. Formerly only inferior beef was boned for shipment. The workers claimed that the piecework rates were based on that practice, that the boning of prime beef required different cutting and greater skill than was called for in boning inferior beef, and asked for a higher 2'cltO The Court decided on a slightlv, increased rate for boning of prime . beef, and fixed it at 1/ per quarter , for boning prime ox, and 10id per quarter for boning prime cow beef, plus the 5 per cent made general in August, 1940. These rates are to apply while the current award is in operation, and the present methods continue to bo used.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 137, 12 June 1941, Page 13
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