Employers' call to trade unions

Press, 4 January 1978, Page 10

Employers' call to trade unions

i The president of the Employers’ Federation (Mr J. K. Dobson) has called on i trade unions to accept arbitration procedures in the inew year, and has warned New Zealanders not to expect too much from 1978. “The majority of New Zealanders cannot afford to allow a minority of militants to follow their own selfish interest or foreign doctrines or to cause unnecessary losses in individual income and national production,” Mr Dobson said. “Those losses are too great a luxury, and a peacefijl solution of claims for a share of what the country lean afford is essential. That ! means that the trade-union 'movement must be prepared to accept arbitration .relying ion the validity of its cause ;to stand up to objective assessment.” Everyone was suffering I from the downturn in the i economy. Mr Dobson said, j Wage and salary earners ] should not place too much ] faith in any general wage I order to compensate fully Tor this. ________