Reject all productivity deals!
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Even while Vauxhall workers at Ellesmere Port voted to reject the 5% pay policy last week TGWU convenor John Farrel was putting forward the dangerous idea of a "phony" produrtivity deal He has suggested that a higher minimum payment in such deal, along the lines of the current productivity deal's £2 "lead-in" payment (which is not dependent on productivity) may be a possibility.
More acceptable Clearly he is hoping that such a deal would be more acceprable to the company 11and the government because it would camouflage the true extent of the smashing of the 5% ceiling from the other sections now involved in pay negotiations-and ir particular from the public sector workers.
Callaghan is relying on the likes of Farral to collab. orate with such deals in order to stave-off the resulting wave of strikes which would inevitably follow an open breach of the 5% by The body shop at Ellesmere Port Ford and Vauxhalis A principled leadership would have nothing to do with productivity deals whether they are the obvious job-selling variety or the so-called "phoney" cover-up jobs.
If the company can pay money through a "phoney" deal they can pay it instead as an open, no strings breach of the 5% limit. OFFICIAL STRIKE Garners pickets