On 15/02/2018 11:21, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
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dennis@home wrote:
Its hardly surprising people didn't invest in the car industry..
if they built a new paint shop that only needed half the men to do the
job the unions still insisted on having the original number and wanted
more pay for doing an easier job.

Very true. Goes totally against the Tory mantra of sacking as many workers
as possible. After all, they are born to be in charge?

A better paint plant should result in higher quality and lower costs.
Increasing demand.

This is true if you can cut the manning. Its not true if you are left
with just as many with half doing nothing and the other half resenting
being the ones doing the work.


Allowing those now spare to be re-deployed. As happens
in any decent industry who care about their workforce.

The unions didn't let them be redeployed!
They wanted the same number of jobs for their workers and weren't going
to let them join another union to work on the production line or in the
stores or whatever union was in power there.
You have heard of closed shops haven't you?


But doesn't win the footie game you seem to think such things are.