NO SETTLEMENT

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 80, 2 October 1944, Page 6

NO SETTLEMENT

RAILWAY OFFICERS

' HIGHER SALARY CLAIMS ■°-f' -1,-,-* AUCKLAND, This .Day. . A possibility that the Railway' Officers Institute and the Railways Department might reach an amicable , [agreement on the question of better : .salaries and conditions, has . not , materialised. At the conclusion of , . [two-day negotiations in Wellington Hast week the national executive of the - institute declined certain proposals put , > l*?™? 1? by the Department and de- - 'fCided to place its case before the .•Hallway Wages Tribunal. . The Department's offers included an -^crease in salaries for all members of the first division,.as v/ell as amend- • .ments to boarding allowances for retlievmg personnel to meet the increased cost of living. -The Department also proposed a new schedule of hours for overtime work. " Although they- considered the offers in respect to salaries were fairly .reasonable, members of the railway ;officers\ executive expressed dissatis- :' ?i acll on Wlth the Proposed alterations ■.to the system of, overtime, and largely on this account it was decided to ' ' €° «>-tne tribunal: The case will be £££ rd + £ OW + ai£ s th, e end of this month .„after the tribunal has dealt with that of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants;. '-' -The question of members of the Railway .Officers' Institute who had volunteered to go into essential indus- . j tries while serving with the- Third Division i n the Pacific being qom- -.- (Pelled to work m the second division jof .the railway service also was ,' '• i takf, n., u P last week with the Minister - ,of Railways. Mr. Semple. ■ The Minis- • iter agreed that this anomaly did not - ; . jnake for the maximum efficiency of -™c service, but he said it was a' Cabinet decision and nothing could ibe done until it was rescinded - ,

SECOND DIVISION DISPUTE. ' A + ,,me? ting, of the Auckland , branch of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, which was held in the 5£ c vil Ml a}- Newmarket yesterday, .-.--decided that any stop-work meeting ,of members of the branch would be . held over until the decision of the .tribunal set up to'deal with the wages ..dispute was'- made known. Ther^ were <twcior; three dissentients who wanted . i? have a', stop-work meeting today •The tribunal will start its sitting in .Wellington on October 9.