WAGES OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3477, 13 October 1926, Page 6

WAGES OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS

NEW AWARD ASKED FOR. [Per Press Association.] AUCKLAND, Last Night. The application of the Auckland Electrical Trades Union for a now award, covering linesmen and other employees of the Auckland Electric Power Board, was heard by the Arbitration Court. The principal items in the dispute were wages, and a definition of certain classes of work. The union asked for the following rates of wages, present award rates being given in parenthesis:— Senior inspectors £7 a week, Inspectors £6 10s, meter readers and meter fixers £5, foremen meter-read-ers £5 15s, patrolmen £5 10s or 2/6 an hour, foremen (overhead and underground) £5 10s or 2/6 (2/31), cable jointers £5 10s or 2/6 (2/2), linesmen £5 4s 6d or 2/41 (2/li), linesmens’ assistants and cable-joint-ers’ assistants £4 15b 6d or 2/2 (1/11), cable layers’ assistants £4 15s 6d or 2/2 (1/101). The Union also asked for the inclusion of inspectors, patrolmen, and meter-readers, and for a new definition of the work of linesmens' assistants, including a wide variety of operations. Counsel for .eight inspectors,, thirteen meter-readers, and seven meterflixers, employed by the Auckland Power Board, asked that these classes of workerb be exempted. Decision was reserved.