Ship’s Officers Object To 56-hour Week
ON VESSELS UNDER 1000 TONS Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Last Night. Indignation at the Arbitration Court’s ruling that officers of ships of under 1000 tons trading in New Zealand waters should observe a 56-hour week was expressed to-day at a special meeting of the Wellington Merchant Service Guild. It was decided to approach the shipowners at onco and ask tor a new award. It was pointed out that while other unions wore working a 40-hour week officers on small ships were called upon to work 56 and this meant that in “one male ships" where there was no limi tation of the day’s work officers could bo worked 20 hours iu one day and two in the next and as long as their hours at the end of the week did not total 52. No compensation was made for days when 20 hours were worked. It was resolved to accept nothing less than an eight-hour day and a six-day working week as it. was stated this was worked on all steamers trading on the Australian coast and in the Union Company which was not included in the progent agreement
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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 27, 2 February 1937, Page 7
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