CONCILIATION COUNCIL.
GAS TRADE DISPUTE.
A CoxcxLiAnov Council met yesterday to consider an application by the Gasworks Employees Union for a new award. The Conciliation Commissioner, Mr. T. Harle Giles presided. The union asked for seven shifts of eight hours each per week, workers to change shifts each fortnight; minimum wage for a retort house worker or _ fireman on steam boilers to be 14s per shift 24 hours' notice to be giyen of termination of engagement. The employers' counter-proposals agreed to the shifts but stipulated that 14 days' notice be given on each side of termination of engagement; each worker for 12 months or more to have 14 days' holiday on full pay all time worker' outside the hours prescribed as shifts to be paid time and a-quarter for tne first two hours and thereafter time and a-half. The minimum wages offered by the employers were : For re' ort-house workers—machine men 10s 6d for eight hours' shift, assistants and fire-cleaners 10s for eight hours' shift; boiler firemen 9s. The employers also offered 6d per day bonus during the currency of the war and for three months after declaration of peace. The council went into committee for consideration of the dispute.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16581, 3 July 1917, Page 6
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