0 a demand for an increase in pay:
As expected, management said the workers' pay claim was too high.
Rather than favouring organized labour, government policy had periodically to discipline workers over pay claims when other methods of managing expectations had failed.
We aim to pay claims within six months of receiving them.
Whatever words he used, it is clear he was prepared to pay claims up to the extent of £500,000.
I am entitled to ask what is the position of the various pay claims that workers understood they were to get.
On many occasions they have to invest their money overseas, because of statutory requirements, to pay claims.
Negotiations on these and other pay claims are the sole responsibility of the parties concerned.
It is they who are encouraging unions—in some cases; not in all, of course—to make excessive pay claims.
The morale is fairly good, but it would be better if the pay claims could be settled as early as possible.
