MEASURED DAYWORK AND COLLECTIVE BARGAINING.

This paper examines the implications of introducing measured daywork (M.D.W.) for the institutions of collective bargaining. The decision to introduce M.D.W. will have been taken by a single firm for one or more of its plants. M.D.W. will be replacing an existing pay system based substantially on payment by results (P.B.R.), and that the main impetus for change has come from the degeneration of this system. Management is already engaged in some form of collective bargaining, though this may mean no more than that it recognizes the unions organizing the workers concerned and deals with their shop stewards.