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Better conditions for management urged

PA Wellington A plea for the “forgotten people,” middle-management staff, has been made by the Employers’ Federation’s executive director, Mr Jim Rowe, at a Tanners’ Association conference at Waitangi. He warned employers that contracts of employment for managerial staff had to be produced if the danger of losing them to trade unionism was to be averted. Increasing concern was being caused by the growth of managerial unionism aimed at middle management up to, but not including, managing directors. One proposal would leave

New Zealand with only a handful of managers as employers. The reason was simple: in difficult economic times middle-management employees tended to see themselves as the forgotten people.

Management workers were not in the position to bargain for themselves in the way unions bargained for their subordinates. Employers failed to increase management salaries in accordance with salaries further down the line. '

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Press, 23 April 1980, Page 12

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Better conditions for management urged Press, 23 April 1980, Page 12

Better conditions for management urged Press, 23 April 1980, Page 12