On 13/06/2015 00:07, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article m,
dennis@home wrote:
You have to ask yourself why other high wage economies managed to retain
heavy industry that was deemed not viable in the UK.


Because you can automate a high wage industry and still produce cost
effective output using less people. You can't do what the unions in the
car industry wanted and keep all the staff even though there is no work
for them.

And automation requires investment...


So now we get back to the fact the unions prevent that investment
because they insisted on keeping the same number of jobs even though
there was no work to do. That means no efficiency increase for extra
money and only brain dead unionists think that that will work.
Its what happened to the car industry, the owners want to invest, the
result will be less people needed, the unions jump up and down and the
investment gets cancelled, leading to closure.
In the main the companies that did invest and cut their workforces are
still here.