MEAT WORKS DISPUTE.
THE AGREEMENT RATIFIED. [BY TELEGRAPH.—-PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, Thursday. The meeting of the Wellington Freezers' Union, hold in the Oddfellows' Hall, Petone, tins afternoon, was largely attended. The agreement arrived at by the representatives of the company and the men on the previous day, was unanimously ratified. Work will be resumed at the Petone and Ngahaurnnga meat works at eight a.m. to-morrow. Of the 300 employees in the two works, about one-half are immediately interested in the agreement, which means an increase in wages of 9s per week of 48 hours to those in the trade, outside of the slaughtermen and pullers, who are working under a separate award. The agreement, which is to continue in force until February 22, 1915. sets out that the Freezers' Union is to register under the Arbitration Act, and that the terms shall he binding upon both parties..
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14924, 23 February 1912, Page 7
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146MEAT WORKS DISPUTE. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14924, 23 February 1912, Page 7
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