New Structure for Wage Bargaining?

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from Mike Martin A newly published study submitted to the Royal Commission on Trade Unions by Dr. McCarthy, research director for the Royal Commission, states that ".22if effective control is to be exerted over total wages bill in the interests of incomes policy it will be necessary to discover a way of taking action at the level of the firm as well as at the level of national bargeining. So far incomes policy has been effective mainly through influence exerted at national level." There seems to be a strong hint here in Tr. McCarthy's remarks in fevour of local machinery to give guidance in local bargaining. The basis of his remarks is his view that there will be increasing emphasis in future on local bargaining, leading to more Wage Drift (the disparity between local and national wage levels). Im other words the practice of workers obtaining rises over and above national rates as a result of better organ— isation is likely to come under renewed attack. If Dr. McCarthy's views are at all typical of the oyal Commission, this can only be seen as a warning of a new stage in the attack on the organisations and living standards of the working class.