FIBROUS PLASTERERS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 July 1938, Page 2

FIBROUS PLASTERERS

CONCILIATION AGREEMENT. INCREASE IN WAGES. (By Telegraph—Press Association). WELLINGTON, This Day. Complete agreement, including an increase in wages to be given immediately, and conditions principally as they are in the current award, was reached by the conciliation council which considered yesterday the Wellington industrial district fibrous plasterers’ dispute. The increase amounts to one penny an hour for journeymen, and two-pence for other adult workers, the scale being based on that in the Auckland award. The award is to be made to expire at the end of February, which is the time when other district awards will expire, in expectation that a Dominion award will be brought into force then. The wages agreed to are 2s 9d an hour for journeymen, 2s 7d for casters and wallboard-makers, 2s 5d for casters of cornices, ribs and other light castings other than sheet castings, 2s 7d for workers employed in the dual capacity of sheet and cornice casters, 2s 74d for casters making cement sheets, £1 5s a week to £3 8s a week for youths employed solely on light casting other than sheet casting, 2s 4d an hour for learners over 20 years of age, £2 2s a week to £3 8s a week for youths not under 18 assisting sheet casters, and Is a day extra for workers giving instructions where more than four journeymen are working. : So far as wages are concerned, the dward is to come into force as from last Friday, and immediate steps are to be taken to secure the court’s ratification generally. The award will expire on February 28, 1939.