SEAMEN’S WAGES
(N.Z. Press Association)
WELLINGTON, Feb. 3. Ordinary seamen (qualified) will receive an increase of up to £l2B 10s a year and able seamen £55 7s extra a year in an agreement accepted today by the Federated Seamen’s Union. The award will have to be ratified by the Arbitration Court.
Meetings were held in Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton and Dunedin today. The president (Mr W. Martin) said this afternoon members had today voted overwhelmingly in favour of the new agreement reached recently between the union executive and the New Zealand Shipowners* Federation. The new agreement gives pay days each fortnight on a 28-day basis, an extra week’s leave (now 21 days a year) and an extra statutory holiday, Waitangi Day, February 6.
Wages are up by 8 per cent and overtime is time and a half instead of a proportional payment A more liberal time off scheme will be implemented by employers and special allowances and payments have been increased, in some cases by as much as 40 per cent
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 30976, 4 February 1966, Page 14
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170SEAMEN’S WAGES Press, Volume CV, Issue 30976, 4 February 1966, Page 14
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