Wharf Pay Increase
(NJZ.P.A.-Reuter— Copyright) LONDON, October 30.
Britain's 65,000 dockers will work a 40-Jhouir week—two hours less without loss of pay—starting July 27 next year. From then they will work eight hours a day from Monday to Friday. Saturday will count for overtime. These vzere the main points in an employers’ offer accepted today by 72 votes to eight at a national dockers’ conference.
The agreement amounts to a 3| per cent increase in pay tor registered dock workers. It will cost employers nearly £2 million more on their annual £52 million wage bill tor registered workers.
Under the agreement the dockers are committed to measures to improve efficiency and increase the mobility of labour.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30278, 2 November 1963, Page 22
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116Wharf Pay Increase Press, Volume CII, Issue 30278, 2 November 1963, Page 22
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