CONCILIATION SUCCEEDS
CARPENTERS AND JOINERS ■ SETTLEMENT OF WAGES DISPUTE. TWO SHILLINGS FOR JOURNEYMEN. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. Adjourned from November 30 in order that the employers’ 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 Jointers and the New Zealand Federated Builders and Contractors Industrial Association of employers. Mr. W. Newton, Conciliation Commissioner, presided. Complete agreement, was reached after deliberations which lasted all day; The principal question settled was that of wages, 2s an 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 also were settled. . The agreement will be operative for one year.
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Taranaki Daily News, 14 December 1932, Page 9
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