BUILDING TRADE
CONCILIATION PROCEEDINGS COMPLETE AGREEMENT REACHED. (Peb United Press association.) WELLINGTON, December 13. Adjourned from November 30 in order that the employees’ representatives might submit the employers’ latest offer to their unions, a meeting of the Conciliation Council was held to-day to consider further the dispute between the Amalgamated Society of .Carpenters and Joiners’ and the New Zealand Federated Builders and Contractors’ Industrial Association of Employers. Mr W. Newton, conciliation commissioner, presided. A complete agreement was reached after deliberations which lasted all day. The principal question settled was that of wages, 2s au hour being fixed in the case of journeymen, and Is 5d an hour in the case of improvers. The employers agreed to pay double rates for Sundays and holidays and in the case of ordinary overtime, time and a-quarter for the first four hours, and time and a-half thereafter. Several other questions were also settled. The agreement is to be operative for a period of one year.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21827, 14 December 1932, Page 5
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