Freezing work stoppage
Sir,—The disheartenment felt by M. J. Williams (May 8) “at the behaviour of the Meat Workers’ Uriion and the F.0.L.” is asWhing
to that felt by the freezing workers and the F.O.L. at the National Party Government’s intransigence over free wage bargaining. Mr Bolger has described the present actions by the freezing workers as “a nonsense.” The Government’s policy of keeping the freeze on wages while freeing prices to rise is the most incredible nonsense in the situation that those policies have brought about. No course is left to New Zealand’s workers but to take action to force the Government to abandon this unacceptable imposition. As for breaking the law, when legislation is used as a weapon by the Government on behalf of the employing class against the working class, the latter has no alternative but to break it, in thoroughly justified defiance of it.—Yours, etc., M. CREEL. May 8, 1984.
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