TARANAKI BUTCHIER;S UNION.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 26 January 1927, Page 10

TARANAKI BUTCHIER;S UNION.

PROPOSED INDUSTRIAL AWARD HOURS AND WAGES. Proposals- for important, alterations relative -to meat retailing cornu cions, particularly with xeieienoe to stropping uouiis 111 the district/, were embodied in a suggested industrial award which came lie lore the Jtlawera Borough Council at its monthly meeting last evening, when a circular letter received by the abbatoir foreman from the secretary ox the Taranaki Butchers' Industrial Union of Workers was placed on the table. The letter enclosed a copy of proposals for a new award and requested that a conference of master butchers and employees o-f the Taranaki district be arranged with a view to reaching ail agreement las to wages and general conditions. Among the terms suggested were a working week of 443 hours and a weekly half-holiday on Saturdays, hours to be from- 7.30 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. with a break of an hour for dinner, on five days of the week and from 7.30 p.m. to noon on Saturdays. Stipulations as to wages included £6 weekly for first shopmen, . £0 10s for second shopmen and slaughtermen, £5 5s for other workers and 3s an hour for casuals. P,reference to unionists figured among the other proposed clauses. The clerk (Mr. IT. S. Elliott) gave the opinion that the term® would not apply to the council, as the abbattoir workers, if enrolled in any union, would probably come under the slaughtermen’s award. t On the motion of Or. H. N. Lester, seconded’ by Or. J. M. Townsend, the matter was referred, with power to act, to the abbattoir committee.