PRODUCE STORE WORKERS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XI, Issue 53, 16 February 1921, Page 4

PRODUCE STORE WORKERS.

CONCILIATION COUNCIL TO HEAR DEMANDS. The Conciliation Commissioner will sit in Napier to-morrow to consider the dispute in connection with the Wellington and district vool, hide, and grain store union, and the wholesale merchants’ storemen’s and packers’ union. The former demand a 44-hour week, and their demands for wages are 2/6 per hour for casual workers with a permanent wage of £5 Working manure, hides and skins is to be paid for at a rate of 3d. per hour extra. Overtime rates are demanded as follows;— Time and a-half between 6 p.m. and 1U p.m. and double time between 10 p.m. and 8 a.m. Work on Sundays and New Year’s day is alao quoted for at the latter rates, while the demand for other holidays is for double overtime. The storemen and packers also demand a 44-hour week. Their overtime demands are time and a half for the first three hours and double time thereafter, uith double overtime on Sundays and all holidays. 'The wages demands are £5 for a chief storeman or packer and £4 10/- for storemen and packers. Tho wages for youths are: Under 17, 30/per week; 17 to 18, £2; 18 to 19, £2 10/-; 19 to 20, £3 and 20 to 21 £3 10/-. Casuals’ demands, 2/6 per hour. Both demands are for 24 hours’ notice of overtime and iu the event of one year’s continuous service, 14 days’ holiday on full pay.