WATERFRONT WORK
EMPLOYERS' OFFER
WILL IT BE ACCEPTED ?
T\he result of the ballot taken by the watorside workers throughout the Dominion on. the proposals submitted by the shipping companies for a new agreement is expected to be made knowin shortly. .
Iti's believed that the ballot'will show $. majority in favour of the acceptance otf the terms.
The which have been balloted on svre the result of the negotiations f ollowlii.g the general hold-up in August last. Since then the men have been working1 under the conditions of the old awand, but at the new rates of pay, "under protest." The new proposals which ha ye been the subject of a Dominion ballot provide for payment at the rate " of' 2s per hour, rates which will be retrospective, it'is understood, to 18th Aii gust. Under the 1929 award the rates of pay were 2s 4d less 10 per cent.; this sum was reduced' to Is lid in the original proposals, and was the amount accepted "under protest." The rate of 2s nil hour is for all classes of work at all .ports for ordinary time. In the nevv proposals there are set out in detail rates of pay for special cargoes and some minor alteration a in clauses dealing with time, holidays and other niafcfers. . . . '
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Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 120, 17 November 1932, Page 12
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213WATERFRONT WORK Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 120, 17 November 1932, Page 12
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