Productivity bonus
Sir, — We have heard so much about the Government trying to drive a wedge between the unions and the general — and generally apathetic — public. Seems to me the unions don’t need an}’ help in this respect: they do a good job on their own. Yet again, strikes threaten the freezing industry and our primary exports, the latest “reason” being the question of payment of an increased productivity bonus to works tradesmen. Will the unions say what these tradesmen now get as wages, bonus, allowances, etc? Also, do these productivity bonuses actually increase productivity? On its own, a bonus of S 3 an hour would appear to be manna from heaven to tens of thousands of “average wage” workers and to superannuitants, who will have to help pay for these bonuses through higher meat prices. Is there no end to the greed of the unions? — Yours, etc.. HARVEY FOSS. September 30, 1977. i
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