BUILDING TRADE AWARD

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 937, 2 April 1930, Page 7

BUILDING TRADE AWARD

COURT SETTLES DISPUTE Press Association WELLINGTON, Tuesday. A Dominion award, excepting Marlborough, was issued by the Arbitration Court today in respect of the carpenter’s and joiners’ dispute, heard on March 18 and 19. An increase of three-farthings an hour is granted to* joiners to make their rate the same as for carpenters, but this decision is not to be regarded as constituting a precedent. The matters referred to the court were hours, wages, holidays, suburban work, and country work. In all matters excepting wages, the award varies little from the old award. A memorandum to the award states: “The principal departure from the old award is the increase of three-farthings an hour to joiners. Until the coming into operations of the award of 1924, carpenters and joiners were paid the same rates. In 1924 carpenters were granted an additional three-farthings an hour, partly on account of broken time through bad weather, and partly on account of expenditure on tools. A majority of the court has decided, in view of the fact that a joiner has to maintain an expensive kit of tools, to restore the position that existed before the award of 1924 came into operation, and has awarded him the extra three-farthings an hour.”