WATERSIDERS’ WAGES
SUBSTANTIAL INCREASES PROPOSED ' ' ‘ TERMS OF THE AGREEMENT - _ Substantial increases in wages are provided for in the proposed ncff. 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.Tqr ratification or otherwise. The ordr-f nary hourly rate has been increases from 2s 4d to 2s Bd, and extra payments for special classes of cargj such as meat, phosphate, sulphur and other cargo classed as drrty o dangerous, range from 3d to ls,an
All Saturday work is_ classed as overtime, the payment being 3s 4dan hour for work from 8 a.m. till noon, and 5s 4d an hour, with a nrimimum of three hours for work between p.m. and 5 p.m„ plus any extra payments due for special cargo as , already mentioned. , . The increase is to be maae reaw* spective to October 1 last year.
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21986, 9 January 1937, Page 12
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