Store workers’ award settled
The Canterbury and Westland Store Workers, Packers Warehouse Workers and Van Sales Workers Award was settled in Christchurch on Monday, but workers covered by the award will not get an increase until January 16, when the old award expires. The secretary of the Canterbury and Westland Stores, Packing and Warehouse Workers’ Union, Mr Paul Piesse, said that the workers would get a $33 a week increase in their wages, which representeda movement of between 15.5 to 16.5 per cent. It means that the lowest basic rate under the award will be $240 and the highest about $260 gross a week.
Mr Piesse said that allowances would be increased by 15.5 per cent, except for the container allowance, which would rise by 29 per cent to $5.78 a day where a worker worked on a container in any part of a day.
Other advances are that workers will qualify for a fourth week of annual holiday after seven years service; the adult age has been lowered to 18 from. 19, giving 19-year-olds an adult wage; and juniors will get a higher pecentage of the adult wage rate than at present.
The gradings under the award have been reclassified to put more workers on higher grades.
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Press, 13 November 1985, Page 6
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