WATERSIDE WORKERS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 22, 9 January 1911, Page 7

WATERSIDE WORKERS

DEMANDS FORMULATED. [pep. press ASSOCIATION.] Invercargill, Jan. 8. * At a meeting of the Bluff Waterside M orkers’ Union the following series of demands were approved for submission to a conference with employers to be held shortly Hours.—From 8 a.m. to 5 p.m meal hous J 2 till j, all other time overtime. IV ages.-—Hand ling general cargo (ordinary) 1/3 per hour overti « e I '4 */ a1 ’ 1/6 a - Ud 26 ’ brimming, 2/-' and 3/-; carrying coal, 2- and 3/-; repair work, 1/3 and 2/-; in freezing chambers, 1/6 and 2/6; on wharf* 13 and 2-; in cool chambers, 1/3 ? n , f • guano and all manure in bulk. 1.6 and 26; creosote, 16 and 26; night watchman. 10 - per n j g } lt Men to be paid for half an hou.’ when they work over 15 minutes and nothing for under that time. When men are ordered down to commence work between 7 a.m. and 8 p.m. and arc not put on they shall receive one hour’s pay at overtime rate, viz., 2/-. Between 9 p.m. and 7 a.m. they shall receive two hours overtime rate, 4/-. Holidays to be paid for at the ordinary overtime rate. Men not to be required to work more than six hours without a meal. The place of engagement should be on the wharf in front of the Customs office. The U.S.S. Company to pay wages weekly on Fridays from 3 p.m. to 5.30 p.m., other ebployers on Saturday from 10 a.m. to I p.m. Whilst engaged in coaling work the carrying baskets shall average 12.1 to the ton, large 5 to the ton. The temperature of the meat chambers whilst the men

are working therein shall not be | lower than 12deg. aoove zero. The I usual clauses for preference to i unionists are inserted. The propos- ! ed award shall apply only to casual; labourers employed from day to j day and from hour to hour, and ' shall not have reference to weekly ' or permanent employees. It shalli apply to the wharves and grain • stores at the Bluff. -