Wage-fixing Procedures
Sir,—lndustrial relations in New Zealand today are a joke, to put it mildly. They are a joke largely because there are no clearly formulated and widely accepted principles of wage-fixation. Anything goes if you can get away with it. There are no wage-fixing principles and policies because, if such were worked out and applied to lower salary and wage-earners in a supposedly egalitarian society, they would, in common justice, have to be applied to all incomes, however obtained. Hence the increasingly greedy scramble (mostly from the higher brackets) for more and more now evident within our acquisitive society. Hence the feeble inactivity of our free enterprise government, the de facto parent of the current industrial messes; Pressure groups of all kinds must win when government fails. —Yours, etc., H. G. KILPATRICK. January 30, 1970.
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32210, 31 January 1970, Page 10
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