SUGAR WORKERS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 107, 2 November 1939, Page 6

SUGAR WORKERS

NEW AWARD. SOUGHT :

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) _ AUCKLAND; November 1. An application for a new award bythe Birkenhead Sugar Works Employees' Union was -heard in the Court of Arbitration. Mr. Justice O'Regan > presided. • Mr. C- Chandler, secretary of the union, appeared' for the employees, and Mr-. E. G.. Upton, Sydney, industrial officer for thfe Colonial Sugar Refining Company, Ltd:, for the em-

ployers..,- Xy'X'X-x'XXlAX'y.'- ' '; "■"yX-.-'-yM-XxyX '■■< Only a fewVpoints were agreed.-toliiiy. conciliation!\cbuhcil,, yiri&udihg X Hours... y of, work: for shiftmen^ pifblic hoKdays, 7. ajvdv'ttje*.payment of)double r^ overtime bn "Sundaysi'arid: holidays. - = The union's claims '■-. were; foi\ hour five-day week ar^J, general ;pier*<;s time 'at time thevSlsiy three hour^'firid^dot^fe>4iriie, tKmre^i v after, • with rjsp&*iai( *; conditioris * for/7S^ey* cl&sses of .wx^k^ crease of ; - 14s ;bni: they easting •■Jbapic rate of £4 ;6s aVvije tibnal increases ; cla£§es,, amounting ymSpmerC^ 10s above the 7 basic.ratey paid tb .these cla*s§es. Annual-leave- of;;;is:corisecutive^:W ing Says 7fbr shiftirieivahdv 10;.eonsie!tUr tive working; days ;fbr other "worlrers, starting oh the day. followingßpxgtng Day, was claimed 7 by^ : the union. :7y.* The hearing'is unfinished

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