FREEZING WORKERS

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 51, 23 November 1928, Page 3

FREEZING WORKERS

DOMINION AWARD FIXING OF HOURS AND WAGES The freezing workers’ (Dominion) award has been tiled in the Court of Arbitration. Except where otherwise specified, the ordinary hours of work shall be eight hours (including “smoke-o”) between 7.30 a.m. and 5 p.m. on five days of the week, and four hours (including “smokeo”) between 7.30 a.m. and 12 noon on Saturdays. Where, owing to the exigencies of the train services or in accordance with the custom prevailing heretofore at any works slaughtermen are required to commence work before 8 a.m., overtime shall not be payable to slaughtermen between 7.30 a.m. and 8 a- m -< but in all otter cases slaughtermen shall be paid overtime for all work done between 7.30 a.m. and 8 a.m. Rates of pay have been fixed as fol--I°'siaughtermen—All sheep not otherwise specified, per 100, £2; all lamb not otherwise specified, per 100, £1 17s. ba., show sheep and lambs, per 100, £- bs.; all unshorn sheep, after November 30 double rates; rams and genuine stags, double rates; ram lambs (North Island) on and after Jnttary 1, rate and halt; ram lambs (South Island), on and after February 1, rate half; dead sheep or lambs when required, each Is. 34d.; back-set lambs, each, 7£d.: all ca'ttle other than bulls and genuine stags, per head, 2s. 7d.; bulls and genuine sta-s, per head, 3s. Id.; all bulls and stags to be chopped; if sawn by hand, rate and a half; all cattle if sawn by machinery, 10 per cent, reduction on above rates; dead cattle, when required, each, Ss. Bd.; calves, up to 60 lb., per head, 7d.; calves, up to 801 b., per head, 9d.; calves, up to 1301 b., per head. Is. 4d.; calves, 1301 b. up to 2001 b., per head Is. lid.; calves, over 2001 b., cattle rates; pigs, un to 1201 b., per head. Is 4d : pigs. 1201 b. and over, per head. Is-lid The ruling of the foreman butcher as to the description of any class of stock shall be final. Slaughter-house and Cobling-roora Assistants.—Boners. after two years, per hour 2s. 4}d.; boners, improvers, first vear,’ per hour, 2s. Id.; boners, improvers. second Tear, ner hour, 2s. 2d.; boners on piecework, beef per quarter, lOd.: boners, on piecework, calves, up to 801 b.. 7d.; floormen, in piecework, per 1000, £1 95.: floormen, per hour, 2s. Id.; cutmen, on piecework, per 100. 4s. 5d.; gutmen, on beef, per 100, £1 Is. 2d.; gutmen. per hour, 2s. Id.; cool-ing-floor hands, trimmers, general labourers, and others not otherwise stated, 2s. Id.; casings, runner-off. per hour. 2s. 2d.: casings, stripper, per hour, 2s. 5d.: meat grader, if not permanent, per hour, 2s. 3?,d.; shop butcher, if not permanent, per hour. 2s. 4(1. Fellmongery.—Pullers. North Island, per 1(10 skins. Ss.: pullers. Marlborough and Canterbury. November to March inclusive, per dozen skins, B}d.; April to October inclusive, per dozen skins, Did.; pullers,

Otago and Southland, from commencement of season to end of April, per dozen skins, 81d.; May 1 to end of season, per dozen skins, Did.; skin washers, per hour, 2s. lid.; skin washers, on piecework, June to January, woolly skins, 2s. Bid.; October to January, shorn skins, Is. s*d.; February and March, all skins, Is. lOd.; April and May, all skins, 2s. 2d.; at the Petone works the employers shall provide labour to put skins in dolly; skin washers, lime dollymen, painters, and trimmers, per hour, 2s. lid.; painters on piecework (to include daggiug, trimming, painting, carrying away, and cleaning down—North Island, November to March inclusive, per 100, 4s. 2d.; April to end of season, per 100, 4s. 5d.; South Island, Marlborough and Canterbury, per 100, 3s. 6d.;_ Otago and Southland, per 100, 3s. 10jd.; piece or pie men (piecework at Rer pound on weight of dry wool)—November to March, per 101 b., Is. Mid.; after March, per 101 b Is. 7d. The above rates are applicable where pieces are picked from a sweated heap. In all other cases the rates are to be agreed upon between the employer and the union in accordance with clause 20 hereof. Wool driers, per hour, 2s. Id.: pressers, per hour, 2s. Id.; pressers, per bale, Is. 5d.; pressers, per bale if power supplied, 20 per cent. less. The months specified In the case of skin washers on piecework rates shall, in the case of the Canterbury industrial district, be read as If the references were in each case to the next succeeding month, and in the case of the Otago and Southland industrial district as if the references were in each case to the second succeeding month. Pelt Department.—Llmers, per hour 2s. Ijd. Fleshers, machine-feeder: First three months, per hour 2s. Id.; after three months’ experience, per hour 2s. IJd. Piecework (including feeding and tailingoff) : On sheep, per 100 Is. 6»d.; on lambs, per 100 Is. 3Jd. Scudders, per hour, 2s. Id. Scudders, piecework, per 100 2s. 14(1. Scudders, piecework by machine, per 100 Is. 2d. Pelt-classers and pelt-curers, per hour 2s. 3?d. Workers not otherwise stated, per hour 2s. Id. Freezing-Chamber Hands. —Workers employed in handling frozen produce in freezing-rooms and cold stores, Including “runnlng-in” and "loading-out,” whether into trucks, wagons, or lighters, per hour 2s. 3d. Preserving Department.—Boners, per hour 2s. 4jd. Tinsmiths, per hour 2s. 2d. Second preserver, per hour 2s. 2d. All other workers not specified, per hour 2s. Id. Casings Department.—Four classes of labour shall be recognised, viz., (a) machine feeders, (b) classers, scrappers, measurers, tank hands, strippers, vatmen; (c) bung hands, Balters, and learners, and workers not otherwise specified; (d) boys. Class (a), per hour 2s. 6(1. Class (b). per hour 2s. sd. Class (c), per hour 2s. 2d. Class (d), as in clause regulating employment of youths. Piecework rates: Strippers, per 1000 £1 Bs. lOd. Bung hands (short bungs), per 1000, £1 6s. lOd. Bung hands (long bungs), per 1000 £1 Ils. 9d. Manure and Tallow Department.—2s. Id. per hour. Oleo Department.—2s. Id. per hour. Hide House—Leading hands,, per hour, 2s. lid.; other workers,, per hour, 2s. Id. Engine-room. Greasers, firemen, cleaners, gas producers, and trimmers at the rate of 16s. Sd. per watch of eight hours. Greasers, firemen, cleaners, gas producers, and trimmers shall work, if required, seven watches per week without extra payment for work done on Sundays and hoifdavs. but shall in that case receive an additional 6d. per hour for the seventh watch. The workers specified in this clause shall have an annual holiday of one week on full pay for each six months complete service, with a proportionate holiday allowances for each month served it the worker's service is terminated by the employer for any cause other than the misconduct of the worker before the current six months’ service has been eomengaged in removing soot from flues, workers shall be paid 2s. 4d. pci day extra, except on Sundays, when doulJc ordinary time shall be paid. For the pur pose of this award a flue shall be to extend from the firing door ' of boiler to foot of smoke stack, and shall not in elude inside of boilers or economiser caps Or M“mem B ’£4 IS(=. per week: casual watchmen. 2s. Id. per hour. Shunters, if not permanent. Id. pci ’'“workers not otherwise specified, 2s. Id. I "Employment of Youths.—Boys and

youths up to the age of nineteen years may be employed in the proportion of one. boV or youth to every six men employed in each ‘ department (bag-room excepted) at nm following rates of wages per week: Under the age of 10 years, - tween the ages of a ' l(i 17 “2 between the ages of 17 and 18 y p . ~ z r »q- between the ages of 18 ana ih years, £2 155.; thereafter, the minimum wag Overtime. Pvrnnt where otherwise provided, all time worked in excess of the hours ment nrrt in clause 1 in any one day shall be considered overtime, and shall be paid for at tlie rate of time (or rate) and a quarfor the first two hours, and time (or rate and a half thereafter Ou Saturday- afternoon time (or rate) and a quartnry Shall be paid for all time worked between 12 noon and 1 p.m., and time (or rate (and a half thereafter. The award, insofar as It relates to wages shall be deemed to have come into force on November 19. 1928, and so far as all the other conditions of the award are concerned it shall come into force on the day of the date hereof. The awardshall continue in foree until July 31, 19-9. In a memorandum, the Court said.— “The principal matters in dispute related to bus services, ram lambs, bobby calves, pullers, overtime, offl.’ials; slaughterhouse assistants, and term of award. These the Court lias settled. The members of the Court were not pf one mind in regard to nil the clauses, but .have decided to adopt the award as a whole without recording any individual expressions of dissent.”