MILK VENDORS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2499, 28 June 1915, Page 7

MILK VENDORS

PROPOSED NEW AWARD. The Conciliation Council, which sat oil Thursday under the chairmanship of Mr. P. Hally (Conciliation Commissioner) to consider the dairy workers' dispute, arrived at an agreement which will form the subject of a recommendation to the Arbitration Court. The principal points of the agreement are as follow:—Hours: Fifty-two i>er week for all workers (at present fifty hours for drivers and fifty-two for other workers); Sundays and Wednesdays to be short days 011 which there will be only one delivery of milk. Wages: £2 15s. a week dry pay (£2 10s. at present), or, at the workers' option, £2 12s. 6d. dry pay and a quart of milk daily. Overtime: All time worked ill excess of fifty-two hours per week sliall be paid for as overtime at the rate of time and a- quarter for the first two hours and double thereafter, except in case of train delays or accidents. Learners and assistants: Provision is made as formerly for the payment of learners, and it is also provided that lads up to sixteen years of age may be omployed as assistants at a minimum rate of £1 per week. Preference is granted to members of tho union, but it is now provided that union officials must notify a non-union worker that they wish him to join. The term of the award shall be three years from a, date to be fixed by the Court. A special clause has been inserted in the agreement to the effect that persons, firms, and companies carrying on business at Potono and Lower Hutt, while retained as parties to the award, shall be exempt from its provisions so long as they do not enter into competition with vendors of milk in AVellington City or its immediate suburbs.