Wage Decisions of the British National Board for Prices and Incomes,1965-1969

For a recent analysis see: R.G. Lipsey and J.M. Parkin , "Incomes Policy: A Re-appraisal", Economica, Vol. XXXVII, No. 146, May, 1970; and M. Parkin , "Incomes Policy: Some Further Results on the Determination of the Rate of Change of Money Wages", Economica, Vol. XXXVII, No. 148, November, 1970.

See, for instance: David C. Smith , "Incomes Policy", in: Richard E. Caves (ed.), Britain's Economic Prospects, London, Allen and Unwin , 1968; and D.J. Stalley , "Prices and Incomes Policy in the United Kingdom", The Journal of Industrial Relations , Vol. 9, No. 2, July, 1967.

Prices and Incomes Policy, Cmnd. 2639, April, 1965, pp. 8, 9.

Productivity, Prices and Incomes Policy in 1968 and 1969, Cmnd. 3590, April, 1968, p. 9.

Report No. 10. Armed Forces Pay, Cmnd. 2881, January, 1966, p. 4.

Report No. 32. Fire Service Pay, Cmnd. 3287, May, 1967, p. 11.

See reports Nos. 6, 41, 74, 106 dealing with staff in banks and assurance companies. See Report No. 74, Appendix, for a Clerical Productivity Index.

Report No. 101. Pay of Workers in Agriculture in England and Wales, Cmnd. 3911, January, 1969, p. 9.

Report No. 36. Productivity Agreements, Cmnd. 3311, June, 1967, p. 1.

Op. cit., pp. 39, 40, 47.

Report No. 123. Productivity Agreements, Cmnd. 4136, August, 1969, p. 29.

Op. cit., pp. 26, 28, 30.

Op. cit., p. 38.

Report No. 36. Op. cit., p. 30.

Report No. 16. Cmnd. 3012, May, 1966.

Report No. 29. Cmnd. 3230, March, 1967.

Report No. 18. Pay of Industrial Civil Servants, Cmnd. 3034, June, 1966, p. 14.

Report No. 106. Cmnd. 3943, February, 1969, p. 11.

Report No. 98. Standing Reference on the Pay of University Teachers in Great Britain (First Report), Cmnd. 3866, December, 1968, pp. 10, 12.

About 25,000 of the rank of Assistant Lecturer or above in December, 1967. Op. cit., Table 1.

Report No. 65. Payment by Results Systems, Cmnd. 3627, May, 1968. Report No. 65 (Supplement). Payment by Results System (Supplement), Cmnd. 3627—I, December, 1968.

Op. cit., pp. 21, 23, 32, 35, 64.

Aubrey Jones , "Prices and Incomes Policy", The Economic Journal, Vol. LXXVIII, December, 1968, p. 804.

Report No. 19. General Report April 1965 to July 1966, Cmnd. 3087, August, 1966, p. 16.

Report No. 6. Cmnd. 2839, November, 1965, p. 13.

Report No. 107, p. 31.

Report No. 11. Pay of the Higher Civil Service, Cmnd. 2882, January, 1966, pp. 3, 4.

Report No. 107. Cmnd. 3970, March, 1969, p. 24.

Prices and Incomes Standstill: Period of Severe Restraint, Cmnd. 3150, November, 1966, p. 7.

Namely the question of incentives. Pay increases to LP workers only may destroy the incentive for their supervisors "to acquire the necessary qualifications and skills". Report No. 40, p. 15.

Report No. 25. Pay of Workers in Agriculture in England and Wales. Cmnd. 3199, January, 1967. Report No. 101. Idem., Cmnd. 3911, January, 1969.

Report No. 27. Pay of Workers in the Retail Drapery, Outfitting and Footwear Trades, Cmnd. 3224, March, 1967.

Report No. 29. The Pay and Conditions of Manual Workers in Local Authorities ; the National Health Service; Gas and Water Supply, Cmnd. 3230, March, 1967.

It is a recurrent theme in the reports that pay and performance are not properly related. See below under wage structure reform.

Report No. 107, op. cit., p. 19. A recent list of salary surveys mentions 27 of them. Income Data Services Ltd, Incomes Data. Guide to Salary Surveys, London, January, 1969.

Cf.: "In the last analysis, the occupational attitude and behaviour of the individual is governed not by national averages, but by comparisons drawn from his immediate knowledge and experience." Report No. 65, op. cit., p. 31. Italics added.

Internal to the industry.

Report No. 5. Remuneration of Administrative and Clerical Staff in the Electricity Supply Industry, Cmnd. 2801, October, 1965.

Report No. 35. Pay and Conditions of Merchant Navy Officers, Cmnd. 3302, June, 1967, p. 14.

Report No. 45. Pay of Chief and Senior Officers in Local Government Service and in the Greater London Council, Cmnd. 3473, November, 1967.

Comparisons between industries.

Report No. 16. Cmnd. 3012, May, 1966, pp. 24, 26.

Report No. 18. Cmnd. 3034, June, 1966, pp. 7, 8, 9.

Report No. 15. Cmnd. 3005, May, 1966, p. 19.

Report No. 107, p. 1.

Op. cit., p. 32.

Op. cit., p. 20.

Report No. 54. Cmnd. 3529, February, 1968.

Report No. 36. Op. cit., p. 40.

Report No. 83. Job Evaluation, Cmnd. 3772, September, 1968, pp. 12, 13.

For instance, in Nos. 17 (Bakery Industry), 18 (Industrial Civil Servants), 25 (Agricultural Workers), 29 (Local Authorities, etc.), 35 (Merchant Navy Officers), 49 (Engineering), 60 (Nurses), 88 (B.O.A.C. Pilots), 106 (London Banks), 115 (Journalists) and 116 (Armed Forces).

Report No. 83. Op, cit.; and Report No. 83 (Supplement). Job Evaluation (Supplement), Cmnd. 3772—1, December, 1968.

Op. cit., pp. 15, 16.

Op. cit, pp. 37, 38, 31, 32.

Cf. the Donovan Report's view that the British system of industrial relations' "central defect is the disorder in factory and workshop relations and pay structures". Royal Commission on Trade Unions and Employers' Associations, 1965-1968. Report. Cmnd. 3623, June, 1968, p. 40.

Report No. 83. Op. cit., p. 19.

See : J. P. Windmuller, Labor Relations in the Netherlands, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1969, pp. 342-7, for the Dutch record.

The board acknowledges the need for them, however. Report No. 77, p. 2.

The argument that the board cannot be held accountable for this as it does not itself select its references does not quite hold as the board regularly suggests them.