The front page of the latest issue of Lucas Report reveals that if threshold payments were still in effect, workers would have got fifty per cent over the wage increases they have managed to win under the Social Contract and the £6 limit! Lucas Report is the paper of the Lucas Vehicle Components Combine Shop Stewards Committee. The paper says:
*A few years ago the threshold deal was introduced only to disappear very rapidly when it was discovered that continuing price rises led to automatic increases in wages. The threshold deal was not adequate to fully protect living standards. But it should be recognised that threshold payments, if continued to the who only stand and watch get trodden on.
bread for her children, her 'only concern'.
rapidly overcome him.
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car Gardner present time, would be worth over £25 per week."
The Combine now considers that the question of wage control is the most important issue facing the trade union movement.
At the moment it is a fight against the stream, following on from the scandal of the special TUC. But the Lucas Combine Committee have adopted a policy on wages capable of uniting all trade unionists. As the front page of their paper spells it out:
*IN FUTURE WE MUST DEMAND THAT OUR WAGES INCREASE WHENEVER PRICES GO UP, FOR • THIS IS THE ONLY WAY TO DEF