Waterside wages
Sir,—One small question, please. How much would be earned by Auckland waterside workers for one hour’s work last Saturday morning? —Yours, etc., SMALL FIXED INCOME.
August 31, 1971. [The Auckland Port Employers Association, replies: “The current ordinary hourly rate of pay for waterside workers is $1.4033. The normal Saturday morning work period at Auckland is four hours and a half, worked between -7.30 a.m. and noon. Payment for the first three hours is at time and a half, and the balance is at double time. On the day in question the waterside workers held -an unauthorised stopwork meeting over working a container vessel. The men were absent from work from 8 a.m. to 10.15 am. Payment was made for the time the men were actually on the jobs—that is, 7.30 a.m. to 8 a.m., 10.15 a.m. to 12 noon-v two hours and a quarter. This was three-quarters of an hour at time and a half and one hour and a half at double time.”]
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32707, 9 September 1971, Page 12
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