FIRE BRIGADES’ AWARD

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22465, 28 July 1938, Page 17

FIRE BRIGADES’ AWARD

CONCILIATION COUNCIL HEARING AGREEMENT ON FEW POINTS (rusi issocixnov TSLXoaut.) WELLINGTON, July 27. The second day’s hearing of the Dominion fire brigades’ employees’ industrial dispute in the Conciliation Council at Wellington to-day concluded with many of the major claims still unsettled. Agreement was reached on a few wages claims and certain machinery clauses. An amended offer by the employers on other wages was submitted late in the afternoon, the adjournment being taken when the employees stated they would consider this overnight

The dispute will be concluded tomorrow. Wages and classifications for watchroom attendants were agreed on as follows: —First three months, £2 10s a week; from three .to nine months’ service, £2 15s; from nine to 21 months’ service, £3. Rates for other classes of workers were left in dispute. The employers declined to accept the union’s classification of senior class brigadesmen, foremen, station officer’, senior station officer, district officer, and mechanic. Their amended wages offer for other firemen was:—Probationers, £4 2s 6d a week; third-class brigadesmen, £4 ss; second-class brigadesmen, £4 10s; first-class brigadesmen and assistant mechanic, £5.