WELLINGTON GENERAL LABORERS

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3705, 14 December 1912, Page 7

WELLINGTON GENERAL LABORERS

XESV DEMANDS

[PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM] AA’ELLINGTON, Dec. 13

The AA’eliington City Council, the Gas Company, all the suburban municipalities, and oilier large employers of general laborers in the vicinity of AA’eliington, have been .or are being, served with a new set of claims by the General Laborers’ Union. It is claimed that a full week’s work shall not exceed 44 hours, and shall not exceed eight hours on five days of the week, and between the hours of 7 a.m. and 12 noon on Saturdays. In tunnel' work the hours shall not exceed eight per shift, from bank to bank,, with half an hour for crib time. Six hours shall ’constitute a day’s work when workers are working in wet places or in foul air, and shall be paid for as if the workers had worked eight hours. The following are asked as the minimum rate of wages for the several classes of workers : Tunnelmen and timbermen 12s per shift, all other workers employed underground 12s per shift, men engaged in sinking shafts 12s per shift, pipelavers Is 6cl per hour, caulkers, powdermen, hammer and drillmen, jumpermen, laborers engaged in drainage, sewerage, and all other classes of laboring work not herein specified Is 3d per hour. Overtime pay is sought at the rate of time and a-half for the first two hours, and double time thereafter. Double pay is also, asked for work clone on the following holidays: New Year’s Day, Good Friday. Easter Monday, Labor Day. Birthday of the Sovereign, Christmas Day, and Boxing Day.