A.S.R.S. And General Wage Orders
The Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants cannot expect the Government to heed its demand for the retention of the privilege, unique among government servants, of the automatic application of Arbitration Court general wage orders to the pay of railway workers. Nor would retention of that privilege necessarily be in the best interests of railway workers. What they want, and all they can properly ask for, is a system that will give them, and all other public servants, wage rates equitably related to wage rates paid to other workers.
Such a system can be more easily devised and operated if the Government’s hands are not tied by any unnecessary complication. Provided railway wages are fixed in a fair and reasonable way what need is there for any automatic application of general wage orders, always presuming that more such orders are to be made? After the experience of the last hearing and of union attempts to circumvent the Court’s ruling, there may be no more general orders. It would probably be a good thing for both workers and employers if that were so.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29985, 21 November 1962, Page 16
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