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SENSIBLE management problems rather than s them, National Freight I pany deputy chairman Paige told the Road Haula sociation conference in' bridge last week.
Addressing the Eastern delegates, Mr Paige advo management policy in whi views of all the workfort canvassed, and argued th this does not happen, it wi impossible to avoid problerr He said that this did not n giving over the decision ma rights of management t consensus vote, but pru managers will find out views, aspirations, and idez their staff.
"If you don't do this, you get away with it in the s term; but in the long term, must carry people with you, added.
Mr Paige drew on genera dustrial trends, particularly the past 25 years, to try to pi course for manpower req. ments in the future, and gested that it is unlikely ti will ever be a return to high ployment levels in manufac ing industry.
He said it was a nat progression of events working hours to be redur and added that future empl ment and training needs Britain will have to take acco of a continued decline of in try in the Atlantic Basin Western Europe and the E coast of the United States.
Centres would shift to the cific Basin of the US West co and to South-east Asia, he saip
A negotiating problem wo arise, he predicted, when : time comes to deal with whetl or not wage levels should along with working hour-S.
Drawing comparisons with I 1930s, when high unempli ment generated an attitude restrictionism among t workforce, Mr Paige predict disturbing social problems in t immediate future.
He said that the effects. 1930s restrictionism are Cl just working themselves out the industrial relations scene older workers retire, but askr "What happens when kids tod don't get a job for a while a then go into industry? What ki of attitudes will they have?"