WELLINGTON MEAT WORKERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13626, 20 December 1907, Page 6

WELLINGTON MEAT WORKERS.

ARBITRATION AWARD. [BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, Thursday. The award in the dispute of the Wellington Butchers' Union, which has been received by the clerk of awards, provides for a 56-hour week, to be regulated in advance by each employer, but a worker may be employed at any hour to supply shipping in Wellington or Napier. The minimum weekly wages to be paid by employers currying on business in a 15-miles radius of Wellington post office shall be as follows :—For first shopman, £3 10s ; second shopman, £3; first small-goods man, £3 10s; all other workers, shop and cart hands, £2 lis riders-out (21 years or over), £1 12s 6d. Outside the radius mentioned the rates shall be as under — First shopman, £3; second shopman, £2 10s ; first small-goods man, £3 ; other workers, £2 10s; and riders-out, £1 12s 6d. If board is provided by the employer, the above wages shall be 10s per week less. Casual workers to be paid Is 3d per hour, with a minimum of six hours' employment, such worker to be provided with board by the employer or paid Is 6d per day in lieu thereof. Boys' wages shall be as followo :— Under 16, 17s 6d per week ; 16 to 17s, £1; 17 to 18, £1 ss ; 18 to 21, £1 10s. If board is supplied, wages shall be reduced by 7s 6d per week. .. The proportion of boy to-men' employed to be one to every three men or fraction of three. Each employee shall have meat allowed him, not to exceed the value of 5s per week, or at the. option 'of his employer 5s in cash in lieu thereof. This provision will not apply to casual men and boys, nor to workers in pork butcheries. Casual boy labour is not permitted. The usual provisions for holidays and preference to unionists are made, and the award, which comes into force on January 20, 1908, continues in force until March 31, 1910. '