| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:No longer Great Britain manufacturing wise | |
| Posted by: | Shaun Joynson | |
| Date/Time: | 26/03/12 21:57:00 |
| You could also leave home unemployed on a Monday morning and return home on Monday evening after an afternoon working at your new job. I know this, because when I was fresh out of school in 1974, I went down the shop one morning and came home to find mum had locked me out. "And I am not unlocking the door again until you've got a job'. So to the Labour Exchange I went, took a card off the wall, took it to the clerk who rang up the boss, who started me after lunch. That would be impossible these days thanks to biggest parasite and menace ever to hit the workplace. I am talking about those completely thick dolly birds called Sharon who run the biggest obstacles to work ever invented. Yes, I am talking about that execrable phenomenon, the 'weekwootmunt agunssyeee'. When I first left school, agencies wanted to find you a job, because they were competing with the Labour Exchange. The second time I left school - as a mature student with a degree in 2003 - I found them doing everything they could to stop me getting a job - mostly because I was a man. The OP talks about manufacturing. And we are told we lost out because our factory wages were too high. Well I wonder if the trend towards packing out factories with agency temps had 'owt to do with it? I worked in the old Bic Factory in North Acton and the K-tel place on the A40 and they were 90% agency temps. I worked in the office and paid the invoices with the 50% agency commission - a figure I have seen many times since then. Perhaps if the bosses had cut agencies out and spilt the difference with the workers, they might have been more competitive. And its the same across the UK. Every factory or warehouse job now is dominated by agencies, all earning 50% commission. In some towns - Corby being one - they have 100% market domination, you can't even work in a chip shop there without going via an agency. In Hackney in 2003, you hade to go via the same agency used to recruit spies for MI5 to get a Saturday job in there libraries! I am sure there are other reasons why our industries cannot compete, but I am also pretty sure - based on experience - that if these p**ces were cut out of the workplace like the cancer they are, then we can be competitive again. |