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6p.c. Increase Dispute (N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, Sept. 9. Overtime beyond four hours in a week will be banned from tomorrow by men at the engineering works of Mason Bros. Ltd. and A. and G. Price Ltd. This action is being taken by the boilermakers’, engineering, electrical, drivers’ and storemen’s unions in protest at the employers’ decision to pay the 6 per cent General Wage Order only on award rates of pay. The unions want the wage order to be paid on ruling rates of pay. The Ironmasters’ Associations, which met in Auckland yesterday, decided to give full support to Mason Bros. Ltd., in its stand of only paying on award rates.
Mr W. R. Thompson, speaking for the association, said today that Mason Bros, offered to pay the 6 per cent on the award rate content of the actual rate of pay. “We think this is a fair offer and it preserves the existing margins of workers,” said Mr Thompson. He claimed to know of no employer applying the 6 per cent order to the ruling rates of pay.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30542, 10 September 1964, Page 3
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