Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
possible job losses at the port of dover.
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/dover/news/redundancies-announced-at-port-of-dover-219732/
just wondering if there is a motive or a sniff of a sale of in the air.
Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,057
And so KoL contacts RMT and GMB instead of UNITE.
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Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,257
Do any of us really want to know what Len thinks?
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Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,057
Well, his is the union involved.
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Reginald Barrington- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,257
Minor detail! when compared to listening to Len.
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Gary39- Registered: 7 Jul 2017
- Posts: 451
So what will happen to the great Western Dock revival?
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Dover Pilot- Registered: 28 Jul 2018
- Posts: 346
Yep and there are large numbers of zero hour contract jobs being lost which wont be included in the numbers released to the press.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,879
I am just hoping that any job losses involved are because a different company are providing that particular service so will still need the people.
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Reginald Barrington- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,257
Unlikely Jan, unfortunately the Port employs a lot of unnecessary senior staff who still find time to take most of a day each week to play golf.
A good number of people who spend there day either looking for work to do or avoid being given a job to do(depending on their own work ethics).
There Is also plenty of needless doubling and trembling of roles and responsibilities.
The staffing structure is long overdue an overhaul. It would be nice to think some of the superfluous senior cushy numbers will be in the sights.
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,879
I was only thinking of those who actually work rather than far too many of those at managerial level who seldom get the push but usually get a comfy sideways move.
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Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,057
Wow - interesting pictures you paint! And there was me thinking that PoD tended more to the "nacht and nebel" school of severence.
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
probably down sizing to be flogged of.
Reginald Barrington- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,257
If they don't like the cut of you then very much so
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Gary39- Registered: 7 Jul 2017
- Posts: 451
How much bonus did the directors get for their great work......
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,101
Not sure what the panic is about. No mention of redundancies in DHB 'full' statement.
Presumably the comment that 'number of job losses is so far unknown' was in reply to leading question from Press along lines of 'so how many people are going to lose their jobs'.
Surely any business should "consider where we can secure efficiencies across our business" and "operate as efficiently as possible whilst still delivering our services, maintaining our assets, performing our statutory duties and being in a position where we are able to grow again in the future".
A business which does not do this on a regular basis deserves to go to the wall.
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Dover Pilot- Registered: 28 Jul 2018
- Posts: 346
Captain Haddock wrote:Not sure what the panic is about. No mention of redundancies in DHB 'full' statement.
Presumably the comment that 'number of job losses is so far unknown' was in reply to leading question from Press along lines of 'so how many people are going to lose their jobs'.
Surely any business should "consider where we can secure efficiencies across our business" and "operate as efficiently as possible whilst still delivering our services, maintaining our assets, performing our statutory duties and being in a position where we are able to grow again in the future".
A business which does not do this on a regular basis deserves to go to the wall.
Would be GREAT day for all Dovorians if they did go to the wall. They have done more damage than good to this once thriving town.
Reginald Barrington- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,257
Can you remind me when this town was thriving?
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Pablo- Registered: 21 Mar 2018
- Posts: 614
Before WW2. It was then an affluent and prosperous town.
Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,057
Ok, so this house believes that DHB should go to the wall for damaging the thriving town of Dover during the inter-war years. Seriously? You may as well blame the Admiralty for foisting on DHB three rather thin breakwaters, two rather narrow entrances and a number of sunken blockships. And it was about a hundred years ago.
It would be interesting to see to what use DHB's creditors could put its assets. Oh, I know: as a pre-dominantly ro-ro port in south-east Kent.
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
button moon, all blockships have gone.