Freezing workers’ claims
Sir, — There is much controversy at present pertaining to the rights of a free trade union to negotiate a travel allowance with the employers. Their spokesman, Mr Blomfleld, made much of the $7 million it was expected to cost them. What he neglected to add was how much profits were expected to exceed the preceding year’s. As a slaughterman I am somewhat cynical when I hear statements from employers about worker participation and profit sharing. Perhaps one of them would comment on the 8.4 per cent relativity payment awarded slaughtermen by a Judge of the Industrial Court for an anomaly which existed within the industry. This was subsequently appealed by the employers. This I consider to be a poor exercise in public relations within an industry already fraught with much suspicion and uneasiness because of Government legislation that will do nothing to increase harmony, but rather the opposite. — Yours, etc., BRIAN GRAINGER. November 26, 1976.
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