WAGES IN FREEZING WORKS.
DISPUTE STILL UNSETTLED. Wellington, Feb. 4. The conference between representatives of the freezing companies and delegates from the federated unions of employees was resumed in Wellington yesterday. On Wednesday evening the employers’ representatives made an offer to the union delegates of an increase of 7} per cent on piece rates for those workers who are paid according to work done, ari3 of 10 per cent in the wages of men paid by the hour or by the week. This offer was considered by . the workers’ representatives overnight. Yesterday morning they announced that they could not accept it ou behalf of their unions, and the companies’ representatives, after further consultation, said that they could no(_ increase the offer.. There the matter stands for the present. In effect the conference has ended without a settlement, but the door to settlement, either through further negotiations or otherwise, is not absolutely closed.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume X, Issue 46, 6 February 1920, Page 5
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