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Originally Posted by nomadking
I remember the Winter of Discontent, constant strikes, car workers with makeshift beds in the factory. Whatever did happen to British Leyland and so many other companies?  Little point "protecting jobs", if the company as a whole goes bust as a result.
Of course the Unions want particular(they get to choose which ones) laws to followed, especially when they paid for the laws to be implemented in the first place.
Nobody seems to ever come up with valid alternatives, that would work.
Eg if a company started negotiations, would customers have faith in using them? The consequences of that and other issues would mean the business went bust anyway.
They have been announcing closure of routes, reduction in journeys, and loss of jobs for more than a year. |
Well, when O2/BT Cellnet split off from BT in 2002, they followed the guidelines (90 day consultation, notifying "at risk" employees, looking for alternative posts in the company for those at "at risk) - pretty sure O2 didn’t go bust (or all the other companies that followed the process).
I have been made redundant four times, have had the awful task of making others redundant four times, and the guidelines were followed every time, and all of those companies (except one) are still in business.
(The one that isn’t was a Financial Services company, and it failed in 2008…)