ENGINE-DRIVERS' DISPUTE

Evening Star, Issue 14931, 18 July 1912, Page 4

ENGINE-DRIVERS' DISPUTE

The Conciliation Commissioner (Mr J. R. Triggs) sat this morning to hear the Otago engine-drivers' dispute. Messra G. W. Crawford, J. M'Alpine, and A. M'Gill were the assessors for the union, and Messrs T. M. Gillies and J. Stevenson th.e assessors for the employers. Up to 3 o'clock an agreement had been come to in regard to the following:—■ Hours of Work. —The week's work shall not exceed 48 hours, exclusive of the time occupied in getting up steam. Each employer shall, subject to the provisions of the Factories Act, 1908, be entitled to ariange such hours of work according to the exigencies of his particular business, and such hours may be worked in shifts either bv day or night. Overtime.—Any time worked in anyone week in extension of the hours prescribed in clause 1 hereof shall be paid for at the rate of time and a-quarter for the first three hours, and time and a-half for all further time until the usual hour for commencing work. When any worker is required to work overtime to repair any breakdown of machinery necessarily causing the stoppage of the factory or works onlv ordinary time rates shall be paid. Rates of 'Wages.—The following ehaU be the rates of wages :—Engine-driver with a. firet-clase certificate as a stationary engine-driver, 10s per day; engine-driver with a second-claee certificate as a stationary engine-driver, 9s per day; enginedrivers whose work necessitatee them getting up steam in the morning and banking fires at night ehall be paid at the rate ; of 5a per week in addition to the above | wages; where certificated engine-drivers I and firemen are engaged any part of their time engine-driving and fill in the other ; pant in workshops or elsewhere at other work for their employers, euch men shall | nevertheless be paid the rate above preI scribed accoivlinft to their respective ' claeses. The following ehall be the conditions and minimum rate of wat?es_for drivers of locomotive, traction, and winding engines :—The hours of work shall not exceed 48 in any week, exclusive of the time necessarily occupied in getting ; upoteam, and, subject to the weekly limit 1 herein prescribed, the hours of work for ; each day may be fixed by the employer. ! The wages to be paid thrill be not lerc thrm 10s per day, whirh is to cover all j time necessarily occupied in getting up ! steam.