SLAUGHTERHOUSE WORKERS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 652, 1 November 1909, Page 11

SLAUGHTERHOUSE WORKERS.

AGREEMENT WITH THE Ellf LGViBS. : , The iterms of 'an agreomont arrlvc'Viit between the Wellington l'ullers' Industrial Union .of Workers and'tho Wollmgton Meat Export r ; ■ Company, Ltd., and the.Geat Mer-r. l Freeing ~Cotßpaey, Ltd., are , recoomoudftd -by oMr., P.- : ; Hally,: Commissioner, . to: be euibodied Jin an award of the Arbitration Court. , The: agroement provides that all' pulling shall ij ibe.Jidld for.at pieco-workrates, Tho rate:of ft: ; pay during ordmaiy • time shall not be less n thai ,9d. per .dozen; On Sundays and holidays tj,- Uie rata of pay. Bliall not b? leas than 10d- per 'i dozen.'- Learners may be employed for a period r not -exceeding- twelve "months, and they shall 4 be .paid-at the rates of : not Jess than lid. per dozoli dnruig the first six months, and 7d : i . pOr» dozen duiing the second six months. !'!■■ Leotnbra pulling' over.^o:skins! per hour shall' .«! be.paid-for-all skins ia.oxcesa of that quani... tity, ot'tho rate of !)d. per dozen/ ; For the pur-' , poso of. assessing tho number of skins'pulled, Bach: day shall stand by itself.. When a learner is Classed as a journeymaa, it shall, bo' a condition '.of hia' employment, that' Tie shall immediately, become" a nieinber ;6f. the. Wellington .Piillers' TJm6n."'The proportioii of learners : to journeymen ishall not oxceed" one to four or fraction of four. When,: through/slackness of tridtffgr any other/cause, journeymen are,put !': off iwork/learners shall be put off also', in the ,: eama.proportion. The .recognised holidays shall bo ,N6w Year's Day,' Christmas Day, Boxing ,: : Day,'- and Good . Friday. . All skins.",shall.. be counted arid'placed as conveniently as ,practic- . able near each puller, who shall bo required to pull and sort the wool, and, in the caso of sweated skins, to trim them.: A smoke-ho of : fifteen -minntss 'shall be allowed m tho mornafternoon of each day.- • Pollers required to wait on the 'employees premises .for a longer jtoriod than one quarter of an hour shall bo paid for tiino so occupied . in waiting at :tho. rdte: of 2s. Pr hour; com-' . potod'frott the expiration of tno first quarter 6i "in ;hour. ,Prefefenco is to be . granted. to uniohists.-.aiid the employers are required to keep .: registers of ; the;v.oaftits !t of , .unemployed . union members. - The award, if ibadej . only to employers : carrying on, buslil6su: in. the city of Wellington and suburbs.