Printers’ wages increased

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33933, 28 August 1975, Page 2

Printers’ wages increased

• \fc Zealand Press Associatioff> WELLINGTON, August 27. A basic core tradesmen’s rate of approx- ! imately 2-34 per cent above the Government’s 1 wage guidelines is among the substantial ad- • vances for printers agreed to in conciliation j last week.

The agreement. reached after talks which started late in June and ended last Friday between the printing trades union, and representatives of the newspaper and commercial printing industries. maintains the traditional relativities between printers and other skilled artisan trades. THp aorpt»mpnl rpnmrp< thp

i nr ax* triutiii icquno me approval of the Industrial' Commission It increases the basic core tradesmen’s rate to $92 a week, and that for general hands to $73.60. The top rate classification is set at 40 per cent above the general hand’s rate ($103.04) A departure is the establishment of 19 as the adult age in the new award, and the service pay on attaining kiumeyman oi adult status has been set at $2.05 a week An important new pro- . vision is an allowance of $2 [ a week for day workers em- ' ployed on forward rotating ' rosters, for example the fiveday week agreement for newspaper workers. With this, the night shift allowance has been increased from ' $7.16 to $8 a week. Completely revised classifications for typographers have ' been written into the agree- 1 ment. Agreement has been '

reached that the union must.| be given advance notice ofp pending redundancies. i The agreement specifies • , that wages or allowances re--'I squiring approval of the In- 1 dustrial Commission willp apply only from the pay < week commencing on or . after the date on which the commission registers the| agreement. 1