Union procedures
Sir, — Your correspondent C. C. Smith (March 27) asks why should the ordinary Kiwi be told when and
where he should work? That is a freedom all workers should enjoy in our democratic state but present industrial leaders are destroying it simply by their ability to influence union workers to go on strike, which in turn destroys the i vestment of capital, the first requirement before any worker has a job and wages. Several years ago the late Norman Kirk said he had had a gutsful of the boilermakers; 1 wonder what he would say today when this same union is still causing strife. Instead of paying compliments to the retiring president of the F.0.L., union members should be seeking some explanations and redress from their executive for its having led them and the country into the worst period of industrial relations we have known. — Yours, etc., C. R. GRANT. March 27, 1979.
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