PICTON WATERSIDERS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1447, 23 May 1912, Page 7

PICTON WATERSIDERS.

♦- '" • I THE NEW AGREEMENT. At Picton? on Monday a new agreement was arrived at between the shipowners (Mr. N. Galbraith) and the Waterside Workers (Mr. J. Bunt, president). The terms include the usual workirig hours, provision for men ordered during overtime, holidays, and-meal hours. The temperature of the meat chamber when men are. working in it is fixed o at not lower than ten degrees above zero. Men engaged at other ports for output work nro to be allowed to perform "such", work in the port of Picton as may lie required. Pro, lereiieo to members of the union is agreed to, the union undertaking .during, (ho our' rency of the agreement that me'mb<rshiii shall'be open to any aiaii without ballot or other • election, ■ and' (bat no fee sufficiently prohibitive ,to debar any worker from joining shall'bo charged. Provision is mado for a loflnl committee of employers and employed combined dealing with any dispute that may ariss. Hie decision of'the majority .to 1m binding; if no agreement'be arrived at then a third patty shall be called in by the. committee, and as a last resort the dispute fihall.be referred lo the Kewi Zealand federation of Labour, and tbo employer or employers concerned. There shall bo no stoppage of work pending settlement of a dispute. Tito agreement'applies only to casual labour' employed from day to day, and hour to hour, and not to weekly or permanent employees, and on!v. to'.the port and harbour of Picton. The agreement comes into force on Juno 1 next, is to continue in force until January 31, 19H, and thereafter until superseded by a new ...';. '" " '';'.'