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Shop -floor managers
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The Government's watered down Bullock Report in the guise of a White Paper on Industrial Democracy should be totally rejected by both sides of industry. It is a mixture of Castle, Heath and Bullock, none of whom could claim to have had any degree of success in this field.
To find the true origir.s of the White Paper it is necessary to go back to the immediate post-war years when, to support its nationalisation policy, the Attlee administration introduced Joint Consultative Committees. Although not so described, many of the shop-floor representatives on the JCGS saw themselves as instant managers or directors. Their contribution to management was less apparent.
One of the unwritten laws of the JCC concept was that they should not become negotiating bodies on wages and conditions of service. Inevitably the -workers' representatives were in the main their shop stewards, who just as inevitably turned the JCCS into what they were not meant to be — negotiating bodies. The temptation to negotiate was, and still will be, too great.
If the workforce claim that only cardcarrying members can handle the tools, let them show a similar management qualification before claiming the right to make managerial decisions.