INDUSTRIAL AGREEMENT.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 218, 8 June 1908, Page 11

INDUSTRIAL AGREEMENT.

NAPIER CORPORATION AND LABOURERS' UNION.

An industrial agreement: has beon arrived at between tho Wellington General Labourers' Industrial. Union of Workers, which has a branch at Napier, and the Muni- ; cipal Council of. that city. Tho hours of work aro to be 47 in each week, to commonoei at such hour in tho morning as tho Corporation shall appoint, and ceaso at: fivo. o'clock in tho, afternoon, excopt on Saturdays, when work shall ceaso at noon. All additional work is to be regarded as overtime.' For the .purpose,'of calculating tho working hours in , each week tho holidays ; which the agreoment provides for aro to bo ■ deemed to be a working day of eight hours. : For tunnel work' the hours of labour aro to eight hours per • shift, "from .bank to bank for; five'shifts a week, including half an- hour'.for meals -. or crib-time, but on Saturdays l ;the working hours are to be four. T*he overseor of tho Corporation is to be at liberty'to.'dispbnso with tho services of worker at "any time during a shift if, in his' opinion, the. worker is unsuitable 'for the work. No man is to be required to work .continuously longer than a six 'hours' shift. in a wot. I placP or .in foul air.-' 1 . .... . / .The minimum wages are ; to ;be:— Tunnel s mpn:and';timber men,, lis: per:shift; all otherunderground men,- 10s; Cd. per shift; powder • mon, Is. Bd.,per hour; hammer, drill, jumper,. . quarry, ;spawlers;.ahd'.:.cr.usher-men, • Is.' 6d. per hour;[platelayers.' and'men omploycd as' leading men in kcirbing, channelling, sewer work, etc., Is. 3d. per hour; asphalt and tar-men, Is. lid., per liour; concreto workers, Is. lid. per hour'; : all other labour, Is. lid. pet hour, v Any labourer: who considers him- . self;;ihcajjablo : of' earning' these; wages may, upon agreement, be paid a; lower rate. ,-V'All time:,worked after five p.m. and after • twelyefrtbdiron'' Saturdays is to be regarded as;overtim6,,and to.be. paid for as follows :— Fp'iv the,[first 1 ;-two hours', time and; a quarter; afterwards,: 'time;, and ;a: half;'. on Sundays, Good .Friday and, Christmas Day double-;tinio; another holidays timo and a half. Tho holidays to be allowed without any stoppages of pay aro to be New Yearjs Day, Good[ -Friday, Easter Monday, Christmas Dayj vßoxing Day, Labour [Day,-: Dominion .'Day.'aM'tho'. Sovereign's; Birthday. '■ •; All. -syorkmen .etaployed. oil' work more than 0 'niiio from the-Napier G.P.O; are .to be allowed [and :!paid' fpr. t .jth6_ time',.occupied in walking-,to and . from "their-'work, r unless a suitable-.c6nvoyancp.:'is, provided,, and unless their places of abodd: are situated within one mile'of-'thb'wbrk/",-?. ; The Corporation'is to employ union meri in preference •to ,;nbn-uuionists, -' provided 1 that thiilre arb union meii of sober and trustworthy habit ''available/'' who': aro within tho knowledge; of tho Corporation's overseer equally ' capable'of doing the. work. The union, must' deliver'to the : Corporation a list of men . awaiting employment, 1 ; must supply all: necessary ; tdbls 'and-Tlifo; ropes' for.- use in quarrying work .whero,-the;-men are working more than : 10ft.; from the bottom of the quarry. , * Tho• agreement 'is to/'remajh in-' force from ; June" 7,\1908,. until, June (.1910. ••