WELLINGTON LABOURERS

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15174, 13 December 1912, Page 7

WELLINGTON LABOURERS

111;'. » ;isr" NEW SET OF DEMANDS. ;*&H'

' - [by TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] K Wellington - , Thursday. Hi*' I^KE Wellington City Council, the Gas . & Company, all the suburban municipalities, •: *.• and other large employers of general {".»?{ ,abourer * in the vicinity of Wellington, 'V* have been, or are being, served with a new [ ••'...set of claims by the General Labourers' ■-f v : Union. • It is claimed that a full week's work \ l; thall not exceed 44 hours, and shall not

F&. exceed eight hours o.i five days of the •V, week and four hours' on Saturday. Work- :•«'. Jn g hours to be between the hours of seven a.m. and five p.m. on five days of the . week, and between the hours of seven

• ; .•' a * in * and 12 noon on Saturday. In tunnel ' /•.Work the hours shall not exceed eight per 1 shift. Six hours shall constitute a day's •work when workers are working in wet ,*, places or in foul air, and shall be paid for / V fis if the workers had worked eight hoursThe following are asked as the minimum ;• ' rates of wages for the several classes of workers: Tunnel men and timber men, 12s P®r shift; all other workers employed s underground, 12s per shift; men engaged i in sinking shafts, 12s per shift; pipe-'-layers, Is 6d per hour; caulkers, powder- ' men ' hammer and drill men, pumperr i Wen, labourers engaged in drainage, sewerV-"%" *B®' an d a 'l other classes of labouring , Sv r _ 'fork not herein specified, Is 3d per hour. '!' *. . Overtime pay is sought at the rate of •' >'/ -time and a-half for the first two hours, double time thereafter. Double pay J** asked for work done on the follow*nß'holidays: New Year's Day, Good FriEaster Monday, Labour Day, the '"'"'day of the Sovereign, Christmas Day, it Boxing Day.