CITY COUNCIL DRIVERS

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21290, 9 October 1934, Page 9

CITY COUNCIL DRIVERS

+ NEW AWARD ARRANGED The drivers employed by the Christchurch City Council have agreed to a new award for the next three years. The result of that agreement was reported to the City Council at its meeting last night. In the new agreement the weekly working hours for Halswell quarry motor vehicle drivers have been reduced from 48 to 44, and the weekly wages reduced correspondingly from £5 7s to £4 18s 6d. This is because of the decision of the council made some time ago that the quarry would not work on Saturdays. The driver of a tractor hauling a bitumen or tar sprayer is to receive 2s 6d a day extra while so engaged. In the previous agreement the driver of a bitumen sprayer only received the extra allowance. An addition has been made to the clause which provides that no deduction shall be made from wages save for time lost through sickness authorising the council to withhold payment of a driver who absents himself from the annual picnic without reasonable excuse. Cr. T. Milliken said that in the Wellington Drivers' Award, the only one of its type still in existence, wages were fixed at £4 9s 6d a week, in the bakers' award drivers' wages were £4 a week, and in the agreement of other local bodies of Canterbury drivers' wages were fixed at approximately £4 3s 6d a week. The council decided to apply to the clerk of awards to register the agreement as an award for a period of three years.