WATERSIDE WORKERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14110, 12 July 1909, Page 6

WATERSIDE WORKERS.

NEW AWARD DESIRED.

An application has been filed by the Auckland Waterside Workers' Union with the clerk of awards (Mr. E. W. Cave) for a new award. The union asks for an fight-hour day on five days of the week, with a fourhour day on Saturdays. Minimum and overtime rates of pay for the different classes of labour are asked for as follows —Stevedores and general cargo hands, Is 4gd per hour and 2s 3d f coal and contingent hands, Is 6d and 2s 3d plankmen, trimmers, and carriers, 2s and 3s; Is 4£d and 2s 3d overtime for general repair on ships, and 2s and 3s for similar work on ballast or water tanks, peaks, bilges, chain lockers, and in and under boilers. For handling frozen meat under deck 2s, with 3s overtime; on wharf or deck, Is 6d and 2s 3d ; and in cool chambers, Is 6d and 2s 3d. For handling offensive cargo, Is 9d, with 2s Sd overtime is asked; while for work necessitating the use of a shovel, except ffensive work, the rate paid for shovelling coal is demanded. Fifteen shilling:? per night is demanded for night watchman, and clauses are inserted determining the computation of time worked, and fractional quantities. For men engaged in Auckland to work cargo at other ports, 10s per eight-hour day while travelling is asked, in addition to meals, fares, and sleeping accommodation ; all other travelling time to be paid at the rate of 2s per hour, and the Onehunga rate is asked for men engaged to work at Onehunga. Clauses are inserted dealing with work in stream, and in the case of men ordered down and attending, in which case a minimum of two hours' pay it! asked. The usual holiday and meal hour clauses are inserted, and the union also asks that all labour shall be engaged at some definite place or places, to bo agreed upon from time to time between the secretary of the union and the employers concerned; that under no circumstance.} shall men be transferred from one job to another unless engaged under provision and that the employer or his representative, in en-gaging-labour, shall take up a position four feet above the level of the wharf.