On 15/02/2018 23:48, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
pamela wrote:
True. Far better (in that time) to get someone in from the local
job centre and let them loose on your expensive printing
equipment. They'll soon learn, after all. If it lasts that long.

Eddie Shah seemed to be okay doing something similar to that at the
Today newspaper when he introduced new technology for newspaper
printing and didn't want union labour.

Think you rather missed the point. Totally new technology. No need for any
of the traditional printing skills.


I think you will find being a skilled printer is not a requirement to
join the union!
In fact I don't think you will find skilled as a requirement to join any
union.

And the ETU covered the new equipment, rather than the extremely stupid
print unions.


so you can add the print unions to the car workers, ship builders and
miners unions to the stupid ones as well as quite a few others.