LABOUR COSTS.
EMPLOYERS’ “ OFFENSIVE ” SUGGESTED. CHRISTCHURCH, August 29. The possibility of employers abandoning their usual attitude of passive resistance in regard to industrial disputes was mentioned by Mr A. M. Burns (acting presdent of the Canterbury Employers’ Assocation) in the course of an address at the annual meeting last night. “ One can scarcely hope,” said Mr"~ Burns, “ that workers’ organisations are, or ever will be, satisfied with what they have managed to secure. In some cases unions have- refused to recognise any factors other than their own desires, and it is a question whether employers should not in such cases take the offensive and file claims embodying conditions less restrictive to enterprise. There is a large body of opinion which believes that the only hope the employers have of ever securing relief from the harassing conditions which are maintained in some awards lies in abandoning the too common attitude of passive resistance.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3886, 4 September 1928, Page 10
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