WAGES AT REFINERY
Workers Seek Increases
(N.Z. Press Association) WHANGAREI, Feb. 20. Workers at the Marsden Point oil refinery are seeking a 9d an hour site allowance and wage increases ranging from 6d to Is an hour.
A meeting of Bechtel-Flet-cher-Wimpey and Chicago Bridge and Iron Companies' employees today decided to allow union - management negotiations to proceed until February 28. Of the more than 100 employees who attended the meeting, two voted against the resolution which allows time to negotiate.
Seventy-two boilermakers at the site are seeking a wage increase of lOd an hour. At present most welders are paid 8s an hour. Some platelayers are paid 7s Bd, and workers under trial are paid 7s 3t4d. These rates do not include allowances such as dirt money. Fifty to 60 labourers employed at the site are also seeking a lOd an hour increase on their present 6s 6d an hour. The carpenters want a Is increase to bring their rate up to 8s 6d an hour, the figure set by their union as national policy.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30062, 21 February 1963, Page 16
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