AMALGAMATED SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3155, 6 August 1917, Page 9

AMALGAMATED SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS

WORKING CONDITIONS AND ■ , WAGES CLAIMED. The Wellington branch of Iho Amalgamated Society of Engineers has drawn itn a. statement', of claims regarding working conditions and wages. It asks that :<orty-fotir hours shall constitute a iveek's work, the working hours to bo from S a.m. to 5 p.m., with an interval of an hour for dinner, on the first fivo (lays of the. weok, and from 8 a.m. to noon on Saturday. Tho .recognised holidays claimed are:— Sunday, Good Friday, Easter Saturday, Blister Monday, Christinas Day, Boxing Day,' New Year's Day, .January 2, Labour Day, King's Birthday, Anniversary Day, and Show Day. Any time worked on thoso days to bo paid for at double, ordiuary rate, and overtime worked on them to be paid for at doublo overtimo rates.

fho workers to bo included in tho ■ award are: Patternmakers, fitters, turners, ■ blacksmiths,'- coppersmiths,' toolmakers and dio- sinkers, brass finishers, milling machinists, motor mechanics, gear cutters, electrical workers, universal grinders, oxy-acelyleno'and electric welders (in connection with general cngineerins;), planers, slotliers, simpers, borers, drillers, scrowera, tinsmiths and sheetmetal workers, and assemblers.

Tlio minimum rates of wages per hour claimed are-:—For patternmakers, 25.; fitters, Is. lid.;' turners, Is. lid.; blacksmiths, Is. lid.; coppersmiths, Is. Ltd.; ■ toolmakers and die sinkers, Is. lid.; brass finishers, Is. lid.; milliner machinists, Is. lid.; millwrights, Is. lid.; motor mechanics. Is. lid.; electrical workers, Is. lid.; universal grinders. Is. Ud.; oxy-acetylene and electric welders, Is. lid.; gear cutters, Is. lid.; planers, Is. lid., shaperSj ls_. lid.; slothers,' Is. lid.; borers, Is. lid.; tinsmiths and sheet-metal workers, Is.- lid.; drillers, Is. Srl.j screwers, is. 7d.; assemblers, Is. Bd.

- It is demanded that any employer taking an. apprentice, to • learn the trade shall be deemed to undertake the duty which he agrees to perform as a duty enforceable under,the award, and shall pay such apprentice not less than the undermentioned rates of wages:—For the first-year, 12s. fid. per week;-'second year, 17s. Gd. per week; third year,' 225. (id. rpcr week; fourth year, 30s. per week ;• fifth year, 40s. per week..