productivity of But last Thursday.
Germany million SHOUTS Ford UK 10.9 this category. 14.3 11.0 floor workers Indeed, the Labour whole Ford were a unfavourably with the of industrial Phase 3 norm.
sure *self-financing if they are exactly that. JOHN MILLER, a national negotiating officer of the past pay round were 'phoney', designed to do no more than get around the government's 10 percent limit.
Miller claimed that deals negotiated by the giant BP and ICI companies were among those which fell into Miller was confirming what many trade unionists and shop govern ment was aiso periccuy aware that many productivity deals CAL ON complete sham They designed to save the face of the productivity government and its 10 per cent, That is why the government will be doing all it can to make this time around possible productivity be reduced. deals' will only win its approva enterprise.
This is obvious from the government's secret guidelines on the 5 per cent pay policy, 1 alone that | circulated to civil servants and recently exposed in The Times.
These guidelines are not only Or the document puts it, a of last year's rules. stress 1021 whet is increased the extra profits should not all go to those who are responsible for the increased production shopfloor workers: *so far as any unit should …a reasonable share of the benefits must go to the The document continues by saying that increased profits - as al rora (productivity) scheme.
gulacine suresse. promise to increase productivity by itself insufficient to qualify for a wage increase, and that only after any increase in productiwill payment be sanct ioned:
*It must be demonstrated to be self-financing before any are made, and payments should continue only if regular checks confirm that it is self-financing.' In other words, hand in hand with productivity deals will go a significant increase in manage ment policing of workload, in speed, time-keeping, etc.
The message, then, is one of government determination that significant increase 11 workers wages will not come from the bosses' profits but the workers sweat.
This time there will be no phoney productivity deals. Which is why this time they must be resisted
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Transport and General Workers Union, blew the gaff Speaking on Thames Television, he admitted that many of the productivity deals he had negotiated in the