CITY COUNCIL EMPLOYEES
A deputation from the ■Wellington Drivers' Union waited upon the City Council last night to ask that the drivers in the employ of. the council should be granted improved conditions of employment, namely wages at the rate of £3 per week (dustmen £3 7s. per week) for a week of 61 hours. It w;as stated that the union's representatives had been able to agree with the City authorities on all other matters in dispute/ The Mayor promised that the council would givo the subject careful consideration.The General Labourers' Union' has been informed in reply to their appli* cation for a war bonus of 10 per cent., as recommended recently by the Court of Arbitration, that the City Council cannot seo their way to grant a further .increase'by''way of bonus, as. at the present time the council's employees are receiving wagos in excess of the aware 1 of tho Arbitration Court plus tho sug< gested bonus of 10 per cent. ' , The Tramways Union has been in< formed, in reply to their request for. a 13 per cent, increase of wages, bv way of war bonus, that the City Council regret they cannot see their way to ex. ceed the terms of their previous offer. '
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2750, 19 April 1916, Page 6
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206CITY COUNCIL EMPLOYEES Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2750, 19 April 1916, Page 6
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