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Union and workers vote for pay cut
mewbie_2
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If this isn't an indicator of very bad times I'll eat Krusty's hat.
Vauxhall workers...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/7870338.stm
Vauxhall workers...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/7870338.stm
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If this isn't an indicator of very bad times I'll eat Krusty's hat.
Vauxhall workers...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/7870338.stm
Didn't this used to be called short time working?
Thought the Unions always wanted a shorter working week anyway.0 -
Basically a 4 day week.Happy chappy0
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Better a 4 day week than a no day week. Its a different industrial landscape from the days when a cut in tea break length would have commie shop stewards round the brazier. These days for some reason working people seem to care about not only keeping a job but also the wellbeing of their company.
Perhaps the unions learned their lessons after destroying BL?0 -
Strangely enough all this flexibilty and cooperation doesn't seem to have benefited the working man. It seems like wages and extras are being removed as I write, the worse thing by far being the decimation of the pension funds.'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher0
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The oil plant riots were interesting - the strikers pretty much bypassed the union structure. One of the wonders of the internet and mobile phones is that things can be arranged so quickly.
Of course, governments don't like it. I'm sure they prefer the easily manipulated days of printed newspapers.
Didn't JCB go for a reduced week, but then still sack a load of people?
I believe where I work will have to go along the lines of reduced working time. I don't see why, if it came to it, if we were really stuck then everyone could take a pay cut, right across the board.Happy chappy0 -
If this isn't an indicator of very bad times I'll eat Krusty's hat.
Vauxhall workers...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/7870338.stm
I work for them.We didnt get a vote on this.It was this or redundancy.For now its this.We expect redundancy soon, like JCB.-....-.---.---. ..... .- -.-.
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