Tramway Workers Wage Rise
(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, Sept. 22.
An agreement on a pay increase of a IJd an hour on basic rates was reached in conciliation last week between tramway employers and the Tramway Workers’ Union.
The agreement, to be ratified by the Arbitration Court would give workers on basic rates IJd an hour extra plus the 24 per cent, general order which operates from October 12.
The agreement would be retrospective to August 3 and of six months’ duration, expiring on February 15.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29008, 24 September 1959, Page 11
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