Employment
Sir,—Today’s unemployed are sacrifices to New Zealand’s future stability. Those of us who are fortunate to be working can best meet our dues, to the jobless by accepting a nil pay increase. That would reduce the number of unemployed without risk to our fragile economy. The present lack of fairness and good sense in some unions is a parallel to nearly 50 years ago when New Zealand’s future depended on sacrifices by the armed services while being betrayed by strikers abusing their privileged position. Public resentment developed and in 1951 resulted in Government retaliation against selfish unions. The P.S.A. - and like-minded
would do theirmembers -a ser- ■ vice ' >by remembering /those times. — Yours, etc., 4 /<?;M?BURKE. January 25, 1989.
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