LABOURERS' AWARD

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 12 June 1939, Page 8

LABOURERS' AWARD

MINOR MODIFICATIONS INCREASE FOR CONCRETE WORKERS (British Official Wireless! WELLINGTON, This Day. An increase of a penny an hour from 253 4£d to 2s sgd for workers engaged i i feeding concrete mixers, or handling, mixing or spreading wet concrete, is the major alteration in the new Dominion builders’ labourers’ award issued by the Court of Abritration. The increase affects a large number of workers. Hours of work and other rates of pay remain as in the old award, but certain increases in allowances have been made. Workers in wet places are to receive 6d a day additional oil ordinary rates. The suburban work clause has been altered, the distance being fixed at one and a half miles from specified central points compared with two miles in the old award. The memorandum of the Court stated : Mr Prime (employers’ representative) does not agree with the decisions in so far as some concessions have been made to the (Union, as in his opinion conditions are such that nothing should be done at present which will tend toward an increase in costs, however small. Mr P. M. Butler, secretary of the Labourers’ Union, said last night that the award would be considered at a meeting of the executive shortly.