Southland and Otago Freezers

Maoriland Worker, Volume 12, Issue 294, 18 October 1922, Page 2

Southland and Otago Freezers

BOSSES "VYAKT SUPPLEMENTARY AWAK©

A dispute filed by the Southland Frozen Meat and Produce Export Company against the New Zealand Freezing Works and Related Trades Industrial Association o£ Workers &n& the Otago (and Southland Freezing Works and Related Trades EjnployIndustrial Union of Workers. came before a Cfonciliation Coxaicil i§ Dunedin last week, Mr. W. H. Haglgi>s presiding. Th'e workers were not Represented. The Southland Coin!39aay applied to add as parliss Messrs. [J , . 6. Ward and Co., the SoutStiand (Freezing Company (Balclutha), and LtUe New Zealand RefrigerivUn?; Comi>atiy (Dunedin).

THE BOSS CASS The following is a general state- ■'" mS'lxt of the nature of the dispute: Application for a supplementary award to provide- terms and conditions for engaged on a new system of subdivision of labour in. the sljmgivf.erihg of animals, the saicKsyV.'eni not 'having been in vogue or contemplated •tf'h'en- tho said award was made, and 'consequently not provided for in the •e'aid award. The -application makes •the following claims for a supplementary award: Clause 1; (a) Workers engaged in ' slaughtering and or dresstog an'mals under ft sub-division of labour system shall work as required hy the management, and shall be paid at the r,ate of not less than 1/9 per libur; or (b) any team of-men. vanrk- __._: on tho above system and completing the operation of slaughtering and dressing animals ?._ accordance with clause 23 of the award -shall be paid whichever of the follow-ng aHernative rates provides the 'greater remuneration: (1) At the piecework rates specified in clause- 2 of the ■■award: (2) at the rate of no.t Less than 1/9 per hour per man. (er Notwithstanding tho provisions ot ae-c----aons (a) and (b) hereof, when an employee lias completed one month's work under section A, it Ik* employer may at his option pay tho piecework or hourly rates specified in section B (1) and (2). (d) In the event '«£ any individual worker completing •the. whole operation oi slaughtering: yand dressing an'nxals in accordance) :he provisions of clause 23 of the award he shall be paid the slaughtering rates specified in the said award.. .' dlnuse 2 A: The terms and conditions of the following clauses and sections of clauses of the award shall aiot apply t 0 workers engaged under the provisions of clause 1, clause 22, . section A, clause 29, sections F and N. \Xb) All other terms and conditions ol tiie award applicable to workers employed in slaughtering- and or dressing animals shall apply to . wprite va fengaged under the provisions o? blau&G 1 hereof. Clause 3: Workers employed on piecework under clause '* I'hereof, when recm-red to wait for work after the [arranged time .for 'starting, shall be paid at the rate of £-'- per hour for all time so waited.. Iv .the event of a cut-out, if they are required'to -wait 15 minutes, they shall • be paid at the! rate of 2/- per hour for ;all time waited, tune to count ' from the time each team cuts out on . the hoard. COMMISSIONER'S ACTION •Mr. Hagger sad that the application was by the 'employers for a supplementary award or variations <*i tnw present Award. No assessors had |>een nominated by the union, nor had a,ny counter-proposals been submitted. .Tho three firms nominated by the employers had been added to tho dispute. He had made application to £he Arbitration Court for a direction ;4,«3 to the power of a Conciliation t 0 hear or determine the that--&&Y of a supplementary award or of the present, award in inspect to alternate systems of slaughtering (animals. In • reply he Siad received a letter from the registrar of the Court stating that theinatier appeared to- be one in respect of. Ayhich wo provision was madtj.in the award, the proposed system $eiug entirely 'a - new one for New Zealand. In that case, the letter con-: jtinued, the proceedings should be : for ja supplementary award. .The dispute Should be created as in any ordinary' ' icasc, and the respondent party cited 'hi the usual manner. The proposals land counter-proposals should follow the ordinary forms as nearly as pos- : (aible, aud tho rocomnicoulatlons Should £,c framed accordingly. .Unless ,<qrith the consent of both parties, noithfng should be dealt with that con-jjjict-ed with tho provisions of the cur- . award. Tho question, said Mr. ' Stagger, was whether .the present ap- ■ plication or any part of it was in eou•#ict with any part of the . award. * libera >/as no one present from the 'iiulG&'io say there was any "conflict.