Rail pay-increase blame "astounding’
PA Wellington Statements blaming increases in long-distance rail fares on wage rises for railways staff were astounding, said the president of the Federation of Labour, Mr Jim Knox, yesterday. Mr Knox, a member of the Railways Corporation board of directors, said he might have to consider his position if the board allowed ’‘continued unwarranted attacks on railway workers.” . He would ask the chairman to bring forward copies of a statement by Mr Russell Dean, the passenger
group operations manager, to the next board meeting. “It is not correct to accuse railway workers of causing the fare increase, and Mr Dean appears to be following the standard employer line of using wage irises as the excuse for all price increases,” Mr Knox said. “Railway workers have received only a 15.5 per cent increase. Mr Dean must be well aware that it is only people such as. himself who are receiving rises of up to 30 per cent.”
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