Nurses’ wages
Sir,—The Government’s twofaced approach to free wage bargaining could not be better exemplified than by their deliberate with holding of a reasonable pay offer in response to the nurses’ pay claim. This slow-shoe shuffle by the Government can be little else other than a calculated exploitation of the nurses’ professional integrity which is at odds with the possible course of industrial action. If Mr Lange wishes to rule by consensus then he should note that while it is easy to find large numbers of people who think that Air New Zealand cabin staff are ripping off the country, wharfies are overpaid for the amount of work they do, and that member’s of Parliament have double standards as regards restraint in wage bargaining, it is hard (if not impossible) to find anyone apart from Dr Bassett who begrudges the nurses a realistic salary. — Yours, etc., J. MILLER. January 12, 1986.
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