BAKERY TRADE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21968, 27 November 1934, Page 12

BAKERY TRADE

LONG DISPUTE SETTLED TWO YEARS' DURATION WAGES AND CONDITIONS A • dispute which has existed for about two years between the Auckland Operative Bakers and Pastrycooks and Related Trades Employers' Industrial Union of Workers and the Auckland Master Bakers' Association as to the tenuis and conditions of employment of bakehouse workers was almost completely settled at a Conciliation Council meeting yesterday. The Conciliation Commissioner, Mr. P. Hally, presided. The assessors were Mr. E. L. Blanipiecl. Mr. C. Cowan, Mr. C. K. Mathieson and Mr. H. W- Heed for the employers, and Mr. F. H. Bourke, Mr. W. A. Howie, Mr. A. McCarthy and Mr. E. J. Watson for the workers. Mr. W. E. Anderson, secretary of the Auckland Employers' Association, appeaired for the employers, and Mr. E. J. Watson acted as advocate for the workers. By the agreement hours of work are fixed at 46 a week, and eight in any one day, subject to certain exceptions. Employees shall not be required to start work before 4 a.m. on ordinary day?, and 3 a.m. on Saturdays, an extra rate of 6d an hour being payable! for work before these times. The agreement provides for the following wages:—Foremen bakers or pastrycooks, £4 17s 6d a week; journeymen, £4 7s 6d; labourers, £3 15s; journeymen jobbers, 16s a day of eight hours, or 2s an hour with a minimum of £(s for any one day; labour jobbers. 13s 6d a day, or Is 9d an hour with a minimum of 7s for any one day; junior labourers under 19, £1 17s 6d; 19 to 20, £2 ss; 20 to 21, £2 15s; thereafter, adult rates; female apprentices, 15s for first, 17s 6d for second, and £1 for third period of six months, with rises of 5s each six months thereafter up to £2 ss; journeywomen, £2 18s 4d; unskilled females, first year, 17s 6d; second year, £1 2s 6d; third year, £1 7s 6d; thereafter, £1 12s 6d. Time worked in excess of eight hours in any day shall be paid as time and a-quarter for the first two hours, time and a-half for the next four hours, and double time thereafter. An annual holiday of six working days, and holiday;! on Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year's Day, January 2, Anniversary Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday,, Labour Day and the Sovereign's Birthday are provided for. The only matters still in dispute relate to the extra payment to be made to youths when they commence work before starting tifrie, and conditions to apply in cases where the employer acts as foreman in his own bakehouse. The first of these points will probably <be settled by the parties to-day, and the latt<sr will be referred to the Arbitration Court for settlement. The agreement will be sent to the Arbitration Couirt to he made into an award.