NEW AWARD MADE

Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24748, 13 December 1945, Page 3

NEW AWARD MADE

SHEET-METAL WORKERS AND TINSMITHS

A new award covering tinsmiths, coppersmiths, and sheet-metal workers was made recently by the Court of Arbitration. It was provided in the award that journeymen sheet-metal and art metal workers, spinners, head grease-tinners, head copper-tinners, head galvanisers, head man of the department in which a guillotine machine or a machine for manufacturing spouting, ridging, and downpipes, or for curving iron, or for soldering downpipes, ridging or flashing,- or soldering releases is used, and men employed soldering milk or cream cans, shall be paid a minimum wage of 3s Ojd an hour. Other worke'rs" employed as galvanisers, grease or copper tinners will be paid a minimum wage of 2s lid an hour Other minimum hourly wages fixed by the Court were as follows: hoop-tinners and bicycle grinders. 2s lOJd; picklers and assistant tinners, 2s 9d; power hammer operators, 2s lOd; refrigerator assemblers, 2s 91d; all other adult workers, 2s Bd. Slight adjustments were made to the wages of boys and youths. A new provision In the award was that an employer was entitled to make a rateable deduction from the weekly wages for any time lost by a worker through his own default, sickness, or accident. Rubber boots will be provided for picklers, and each year a pickler will be provided with a rubber apron, a leather apron, or a set of overalls. The award will operate from December 17, and the new wage rates are subject to the bonus.