PLASTERERS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1345, 24 January 1912, Page 3

PLASTERERS.

MATTERS FOR CONCILIATION. An industrial dispute having arisen between the Wellington Plasterers' Industrial Union of Workers and T. Foley and Son, plasterers, York Street, and Fulford and Smith, Martin Street, and others, t lie union has applied to have a dispute heard by a Council of Conciliation. Messrs. 11. Burton, 91 Rintoul Street, C. Sicvewright, 58 ■ Mortimer Terrace, and A. Aifken, Willis Street, have been recommended-as assessors. The following are extracts from a general statement of the nature of the dispute and detailed statement of the claims made:— A full week's work shall be U hours—B a.m. to 5 p.m. on five days.i and 8 to noon on Saturday. The following shall be deemed to be plasterers' work: (a) All interior or extmior plastering, wood lathing, fixing fibrou.s ond other kinds of plaster, also cement floors, and all- kinds of patent plaster that may be used for doors, walls, ceilings, fixing all kinds of ornaments in jilaster or, cement or patent plaster of any kind; (li) easting fibrous plaster and fixing expanded -metal may be done by workers other than plasterers when plasterers are not available. Two classes of work shall be recognised —appri-iitires am! journeymen. Competent journeymen plasterers shall I:-? paid Is. lid. per hour. Jf a j'3urnr>.vniiiii is put in charge of work where ?,(l or more journeymen n.re employed he shall receive Is. :\ day extra. .Apprentice- shall receive in Hie first year, Ss. a week; second year. Ms.; third year, 18s.: fourth year. .61 35.; fifth year. XI 13s. There shall not be more than ono apprentice lo three journeymen. Overtime shall be paid for work done .outside the ordinary working hours u! tinio and a quarter for the first Iwo hours :>ii<] time and a liaif thereafter; time and a half for Saturday afternoon; double time for Sunday. Christians Dtiy. Good Krifiay, New Year's Day, Easter Mond.iy, or Labour Day. Country work shall mean work which r.e'.essiiates the worker lodging elsewhere tiiMi at. his usinl i;'nc? of residence, and the workers shall be paid 3d. per hmir extra ami have their fare paid oi.ee each way, and 1:" paid for time occupied in travelling at not le-s than the ordinary rate. Employers may agive wilh workers on c-'iintrv work that, the workers shall lahviir at rrdinary rates (including the :',:l. per !uur) in excess of the hours prescribed. ■-vihurb-in- work is' defin-.-vl as work at, a distance of over one milo and a halt I't-oin the General Pest Ofiice. Workers are Ir> be on the job i'f shirtiin: tun?, nutl the etnnloT?rs are to My them at. the rnt.e of throe miles an hour for time occupied, in travelling by the nearest rc.i:! used by loo! passengers to ami from the jo!) in' excess of one mile and a half, in- pay their tram and other fares and time occupied in going to and from work. Provision is made for under-rate workers. , . ! Mr I , TTally, Conciliation (-cinnunsioner, lins fixed February r> as the date f,:.r the hearing of the dispute, and the Commissioner's Chambers, J-f Aro l'ost Office, as the place.