MOTOR MECHANICS
NEGOTIATIONS ADJOURNED [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] CIIRISTCHURCH, Wednesday As both parties preferred to await the full announcement of tho Government's industrial legislation, an application for a new Dominion motor mechanics' awarti, in Conciliation Council to-day, was adjourned until May 19. In place of the hourly wages rate the workers sought a weekly rate and a reduction from 44 to 40 hours in the working week. They asked for wages ranging from £4 10s to £5 5s a week. The employers' counter-proposals were based on the present award, under which a man engaged for 40 hours would earn £3 16s Sd. The union objected to the employers' proposal for special rates for assistants, except for petrol station attendants, claiming that they should bo regarded as apprentices.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22401, 23 April 1936, Page 13
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