PRINTERS’ AWARD

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27018, 18 April 1953, Page 2

PRINTERS’ AWARD

AGREEMENT REACHED BY PARTIES (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, April W. Complete agreement upon alteraj®*’’in the printing trades award has neeii reached by a conference of representatives of the employers and the union The dispute was considered by a COI \ ciliation council in February, an ° settlement was made only in part. The principal question considered py the conference was the union’s for additional annual holidays. Aite an exhaustive discussion, it agreed that, in recognition of peculiar conditions of employ®®"’ workers who had been continuously employed by the same employers ® not less than 10 years in the proou " tion of daily newspapers should b® ® ‘ lowed an extra holiday of on« wee in each year of service. . _ It was also agreed that all workers subject to the award, other than a® l *? newspaper workers, should be alloweo a holiday on January 2. , Wages were fixed at £lO 6s 8d • week for compositors, with proportion' ate adjustments in other classifications The basic rate represents a premiun of 2d an hour above the Court’s stano ard skilled rate. Several other clauses m th® awaf were amended.