Free bargaining
Sir,—New Zealand is still deeply gripped by the cost-pius mentality and one does not have to look any further than the wage round for proof. The Department of Trade and Industry is continually making headlines on the speed and manner with which it is dismantling the tariff and imput protection cocoon (e.g. from 33 per cent to 30 per cent tax for some cars, a whole three per cent in one year). Until the employer is put in a position where he has to compete with imported goods, will he have the necessary resolve to bargain? Federated Farmers must feel justifiably cheated when Government Ministers continually claim they have put all Federated Farmers’ policies in place and they are being treated evenhandedly. The farmer is still farming in a cost-plus community and selling in a marketrelated one. The scene has not yet been set for you to state in your recent editorial “Test for free wage bargaining.” — Yours, etc. T. D. WILKINSON. Ashburton, April 14, 1986.
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