Four days work
Sir,—A combined statement by Borthwicks C.W.S. and the unions directly involved in this particular contractual agreement of the production figures and value in dollars with an undertaking for a trial run would allay the practical, uninformed innuendos gushing from the Beehive. Advanced technology during the last 50 years, since the introduction of. “time and motion” before 1940 has resulted in the elimination of man hours per unit of production, and consequent redundancy of the labour force. It must be shown that a reduced work period will facilitate a production requirement for world markets, service to the industrial and commercial profitability, full employment of trained skills and the removal of political nepotism, and civil servant-bureaucracy that tends to stifle individual freedom and initiative. — Yours, etc R. W.-H. WADE. October 24, 1981.
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