On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 12:33:49 +0100, "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:

In article ,
Grunff wrote:
Sometimes people have to fight back. There comes a time when some
people say "stuff that - you cannot continue to treat people like
serfs and we'll bloody well show you that you can't".


What utter crap. If you don't like your job, you quit. That simple. You
don't hold your employer to ransom until they give in to your demands.

Most strikes start the other way. The employer is doing the aggression, as
in this case.


Trying to restructure their business in order to stem losses in a
declining market size inevitably is going to result in a loss of hours
worked. Either that can be accomplished by changing working
practices and hours of people that are there or replacing those people
with others who are willing to accept a changed arrangement.

This doesn't amount to aggression, simply trying to deal with a
commercial reality. There aren';t really any alternatives when a
company has been losing money for five years and has lost a third of
its revenue.


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..andy

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