ENGINE DRIVERS' DISPUTE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1148, 8 June 1911, Page 2

ENGINE DRIVERS' DISPUTE.

PROPOSED AWARD,

Tho recommendations of the Conciliation Council in the dispute between the Wellington Stationary, Traction, and Locomotive Engine Drivers' Industrial Union of Workers and a largo number' of employers have been filed with the Clerk of Awards (Air. Eustace Stocker). Tho proposed award is t'o apply to tho districts of Wellington, Palmerston North, Wauganui, Masterton, and Napier.

The hours are not to exceed 48 per week, exclusive of the timo necessarily occupied in getting up steam. These hours may be arranged by each employer in accordance with the exigencies of his business, in shifts, eitlier by day or night. Tho hours of river engineers are not to exceed. G3'in any one-week, exclusivo of meal-times.

Overtime is to bo paid at the rale of timo and a quarter for the first' three hours, and time and a half for all further time. ' River engineers are to receivo Is. 4d. an hour for overtime.

Tho minimum wages arc to bo 10s. a clay for engineers in positions requiring first-class certificates; 9s. per day lor engineers in positions requiring second-class certificates, and Bs. per day for firemen. River engineers arc to bo paid not less than X' 3 10s. per and the weekly wage is to bo paid without deduction, save for time lost through (ho workers own default. An engineer m . temporary chargo of a river steamer is to bo paid Is. 3d. per hour. Engineers or firemen engaged part of their time jn enginedriving and filling in the other time m workshons- or elsewhere at other u ork must bo* paid the award rate according to their classes. ~ , Work done ou >«• Year s Day, Easter Monday, and the King's. Birthday shall be paik at the rate of time and a half, and on Christmas Day, Good lriday, and Sundays, double time rates shall be paid. An exception is made ill favour of ivork required to be dono in connection with the publication of daily newspapers. Kiver engineers are f'o get' eight days holiday on full pay oacli jear. Preference to unionists is provided for, but not to apply outside specified distances from the principal towns. The ordinary rules as to employment of under-rato workers arc embodied in the proposals. . Owners of traction engines may contract with their employees for payment at tonnn"e or piecework rates irrespective of the hours worked on any day, and they aro exempt from tho preference clause.