THE COUNCIL AND THE WORKERS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3327, 20 September 1911, Page 4

THE COUNCIL AND THE WORKERS.

SATISFACTORY AGREEMENT REACHED.

The result of the conference between the committee appointed by the Gisborne Borough Council and the delegates from the P.B. and E.C. Builders, Contractors, and General Laborers’ Industrial Union of Workers, was reported to the Borough Council last night, and considered in committee. The Mayor submitted the memorandum of agreement, which, after discussion, was adopted on his casting vote. Under the agreement the Union undertakes to have the Council made exempt from any award operating during its currency. The hours of work shall not exceed 4S, S 3 hours for four days in the week, 84 hours on oue day, and 44 hours on Saturday. Work shall commence not earlier than 7.30 a.m., and shall cease at 5 p.m., except on Saturday, when work shall cease at noon. The rates of wages shall be: For ordinary laborers or surfacemen, Is 14d per hour; men working Irelow five feet, Is 3d; timber men, Is 3d; leading hands, Is 3d; concrete and tar men,' Is 2d. Overtime is to be at the rate of time and a quarter for the first two hours, time and a-half for the next two hours, thereafter double time. The usual holidays are allowed, and a clause provides for under-rate workers. Quarry men are exempt. All tools and gum b'vrtp shall he supplied by the Council. Provision is made for preference to unionists, and the keeping of an employment book by the Union. agreement comes into operation on September 30th.