The annual report of the National Union of Public. Employees gives the union's position on the incomes policy question. The section dealing with this states quite categorically that an incomes policy must help break down “the present class structure of society by redistributing the nation's wealth in favour of the working class, For members of N.U.P.E. such a policy involves consistent and deliberate measures designed to secure a substantial increase in the earnings of public employees in order to narrow the existing earnings differential between public employees and workers in manufacturing industries,
"As the details of an incomes policy emerge in the forthcoming months we shall test their acceptabilityto our union by measuring them against the standards we have outlined. The degree of enthusiasm the union can accord to the finalised incomes policy must depend on how far it satisfies those standards,"
It is widely reported that the N.U.P.E. delegation will abstain at the meeting of union executives which is to be held on Friday 70th of April. :