BRICK AND TILE WORKERS’ AWARD

Northern Advocate, 27 January 1938, Page 7

BRICK AND TILE WORKERS’ AWARD

[Per Press Association. Copyright .] WELLINGTON, This Day.

A complete agreement was reached yesterday in Conciliation Council on the application of the New Zealand Federated Brick, Tile, Pottery and Clay Workers’ Industrial Association of Workers for a new Dominion award. The Conciliation Commissioner, Mr M. J. Reardon, presided. The agreement provides for a 40hour week of five days, with provision for burners to work 42 hours if required. The minimum rates of pay for adults were fixed at £/8i for hangers and moulders, 2/7 for stickers, 2/6 for setters and drawers, 2/5 for burners, and 2/4£ for all other workers. Youths’ wages will range from 25/ to 80/ a week at two and a half years. The proportion of youths to adult's was fixed at two to seven, but the proportion may be increased in certain circumstances mutually agreed upon by the employers and the union.

Statutory holidays will be observed, together with, 1 for all employees employed for 12 months, leave of four consecutive days to be taken as far as possible in proximity to Christmas. The new award will run for 12 months. i Stonemasons Claim 35Hour Week [Per Press Association. Copyright.! CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. A working week of 35 hours, 23 days’ holiday each year, on full pay, and rates of pay ranging from a mini-' mum of 3/- to 3/6 an hour, are among the demands made by the New Zealand Stonemasons’ Industrial Union of workers in its application for an award, which is to be heard by a Conciliation Council in Wellington on February 15. It is intended that the award should operate throughout New Zealand, and the union claims that its term should be 12 months. The New Zealand Builders and Contractors’ Association of Employers, several borough councils and stonemasons and monumental masons have been listed as parties to the proposed award.