Call for reform
Wellington reporter
The Leader of the Opposition, Mr Bolger, has called for radical reform of industrial laws and practice to achieve a competitive economy.
That would require a return to voluntary unionism, but would also require a much wider reform.
It would be necessary to break the monopoly position that unions enjoyed once they obtained registration of a particular description of workers, Mr Bolger, a former National Minister of Labour, told a public meeting in Kaikohe yesterday.
To allow New Zealand to adopt modern union structures, including single-plant or industry unions, required changes to the law to allow such union structures to develop. Clearly, the wage-bar-gaining system had to be amended to ensure that employees had a close affinity with their employer and understood that profit was necessary to ensure jobs, and that high productivity would ensure well paid jobs, Mr Bolger said.
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Press, 24 July 1986, Page 8
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