Wage Increases
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COLLOWINCi the new wage rates for haulage workers, the National Federation of Furniture Warehousemen
and Removers, S.P.D. Ltd. and Tarmac Roadstone Ltd. have, according to the February edition of the T.G.W Record, agreed wage increases which correspond with those laid down in
R.H.74. Staff covered by the Bank Staff Agreement will also receive these increases.
Drivers employed by the Express Dairy Co. Ltd. who have completed 12 months service at March 31 are to be paid holiday pay as follows: basic pay plus 15 per cent, where premium payments are made on the basis of hours that would have been worked in a normal week. The Milk' Marketing Board is imple menting the recent improvements obtained on the Milk Distributive Wages Council with regard to Statutory Holiday working by staff with not less than 12 months' experience.
Agreement has been reached to increase the basic 'wage rates of workers in the distributive coal trade by 95. a week.
With the coming of bigger vehicles and cranes in the Pickford's H.H. section, new classifications have been added.
These give: drivers of over 65-ton tractors an increase of 26s. 3d. a week;
drivers of over 20-ton mobile cranes an increase of 22s. 6d. a Week; and steersmen of over 200-ton multi-wheel trailers all increase of 22s. 6d. a week.