WATERSIDE DISPUTE
CLAIM AND COUNTER-CLAIM IN AUCKLAND.
-• (IT TILIfRAFI.—rUII AIMCMIIM.) AUCKLAND, 6th March.
The Conciliation Council met to-day to consider the watersiders' dispute. The matter was taken in committee.
The employers ask for wages at the rate of Is 7d per hour, with 2s 4£d for overtime, a bonus of 3|d, and extra rates up to 5d per hour for handling special cargoes.
the union makes counter-proposals for 2s 5d per hour for ordinary work, and up to 3s 2d for special work; overtime at the rate of time and a-half for the first two hours and double time thereafter. The rate under the old award is 2s 3d, with a penny bonus.
The employers »sk that "go-slow," or any attempt to restrict output or overtime in any port, ship, or wharf, or the holding of stop-work, meetings, be a breach of the award.
The union asks for, the right to hold a stop-work meeting once a month. After discussion of the proposals submitted by the nnion, an adjournment was made till to-morrow to enable the employers' assessors to consult the shipowners. -, , ■
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Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 55, 7 March 1922, Page 4
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182WATERSIDE DISPUTE Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 55, 7 March 1922, Page 4
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