$19 per hour

[TLDV8]

I wonder if productivity has improved since then...

In some cases it is hard to be productive.
Red tape,permits,take 5's,JHA's,inductions etc etc...then you get to work with people who seem to think they are owed something and it is their right for near everything including being over payed.
Leadership in place due more to brown nosing than experience.
I wonder if New Zealand has followed the US policies of bubble wrapping everything for ones own good and safety.

The generation that will produce people unable to think for themselves or be able to make on the spot decisions due to being accountable to the system.
A system concocted by university trained dweebs with no practical experience that is made into law unchallenged then processed to the field.

January 1976 $1.17 ph - $6 per day - $60 per fortnight as an apprentice Boilermaker/Welder.

[Kickaha]

I wonder if New Zealand has followed the US policies of bubble wrapping everything for ones own good and safety.

Most of ours come from HR in Oz and are considerbaly more than whats really needed

January 1976 $1.17 ph - $6 per day - $60 per fortnight as an apprentice Boilermaker/Welder.

1980 approx $3.50 ph - pumping gas which was less than 1/2 what I'd made on the Nasella tussock board the previous year

[ellipsis]

ble mae'r hwyl wrth gydnabod y trolio

...an English couple were driving on the M4...the wife says to her husband,'oh look Jeremy , a Welsh family in the lane beside us, they must be going home from their holidays'
'What makes you think they are Welsh, Deidre?'
'Well they are playing a word game, look what they have written on the window with their fingers, it says, " stit ruoy su wohs"...'

[scumdog]

January 1976 $1.17 ph - $6 per day - $60 per fortnight as an apprentice Boilermaker/Welder.

May 1969, 54 CENTS an hour - before tax - as tree-pruner for the Catchment Board. (Remember them?)

[awa355]

May 1969, 54 CENTS an hour - before tax - as tree-pruner for the Catchment Board. (Remember them?)

1969, 50 cents an hour, 50-60 hours per week in a country general engineering workshop. Nett take home with OT was about $23/28 per week.

[awa355]

The generation that will produce people unable to think for themselves or be able to make on the spot decisions due to being accountable to the system.
A system concocted by university trained dweebs with no practical experience that is made into law unchallenged then processed to the field.

.

What every self serving gabbamint desires.

[Ocean1]

In some cases it is hard to be productive.

It's hard to be productive in every case, and that's just to counterbalance the usual physical entropy.

But yes, it's become far more difficult to break even with the cancerous growth of OSH and other politically correct social entropy.

[Ocean1]

1969, 50 cents an hour,

24 cents/Hr.

Not saying.

[Drew]

It's hard to be productive in every case, and that's just to counterbalance the usual physical entropy.

But yes, it's become far more difficult to break even with the cancerous growth of OSH and other politically correct social entropy.

Employers are encouraged to write their own safety systems. It is not a cheap exercise of course, as every aspect of the employees tasks has to be covered one way or another.

But should they really want to increase productivity due to less time spent on safety, it is a cost effective way to do it.

[Ocean1]

Employers are encouraged to write their own safety systems. It is not a cheap exercise of course, as every aspect of the employees tasks has to be covered one way or another.

But should they really want to increase productivity due to less time spent on safety, it is a cost effective way to do it.

I know.

Cost effective? Let's be clear, here, the only reason there's even the time and budget to pay for OSH procedures is because of the effect on prices mass production and cheap off-shore labour has. Faced with the choice of bankruptcy, redundancy, and no product to market or ditching the ott safety bullshit we currently suffer then the bureaucratic compliance bullshit would be gone by smoko.

And let's not even consider the safety of the guys assembling our TVs, earning a tenth of $19 per hour.

Did you know that on Mobil Au sites walking down stairs without holding the handrail rates a first warning? That in Shell offices you're not allowed to carry a cup of coffee without a lid?

[sil3nt]

50 cents an hour in '69 is roughly $7 an hour in todays money so not nearly as bad as you are all making it out to be!

Sorry I was wrong. More like $11 an hour.

http://www.rbnz.govt.nz/monetary_pol...on_calculator/

[SPman]

1969, 50 cents an hour, 50-60 hours per week in a country general engineering workshop. Nett take home with OT was about $23/28 per week.

`1967 - $36/wk - machine technician for Burroughs - it was enough to buy a new bike and go flying 1969, $1.24/hr as a builders labourer in Sydney - 80-95 hr work week, Take home pay about $120/wk. 1989 - about $19-22/hr carpenter - about $6-700/week take home, 1999 working part time as a carpenter whilst going to Tech - still $19/hr and being paid more than most of the chippies on site! WTF!

[awa355]

50 cents an hour in '69 is roughly $7 an hour in todays money so not nearly as bad as you are all making it out to be!

Sorry I was wrong. More like $11 an hour.

http://www.rbnz.govt.nz/monetary_pol...on_calculator/

No one is saying it was bad, just saying what the wages were back then. We all got the bills paid, upgraded cars and bikes, travelled etc. Some of us even got married and took on morgages etc.

[sil3nt]

Some of us even got married and took on morgages etc.

Fools!

[Erelyes]

Fools!

'Who are a little wise, the best fools be'