Employers ‘provocative’
PA Wellington Freezing workers' employers were being unrealistic and deliberately provocative, said the president of the Federation of Labour, Mr Jim Knox. Their offer of $23 was ridiculous, he said. “They are well aware that productivity in the sheds has increased rapidly over the years and freezing companies’ efforts to plead 'special
case’ are in fact an attempt by them not to face up to their own faults,” he said. “They are hoping instead to pass it down to the workers by offering only a fraction of the increase other employers have settled on.” Mr Knox said' meat workers accepted in the last wage round a pay rise considerably less than the 7 per cent average.
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Press, 11 February 1986, Page 15
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