Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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#1
There has always been this dilemma around withdrawing labour and the companies.
There are a number of good unions that will work with the employer to do the best for the company as well as the workforce.
but you don't have to be working class to get caught up in disputes, many middle class (or so they thought) got caught up in many disputes in and around Dover over the years.
No one wants o go into a dispute situation as there are no winners, but there are times when there are no alternatives.
Having been through ACAS I recognise its a route, unions have been a lot more quiet(some) but now seem to flexing.
We don't want to go back to the days unions being to powerful we need to find a route in todays society that will work, legislation is to weighed in favour of the employer at the moment.
And we don't want to return to the Victorian give me a job days.
Of course chief execs, directors etc have a role to play, in not giving themselves big rises whilst telling the workforce there is no money.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#2
Labour relations in our country have always been about them and us and I don 't see it changing soon. Free movement of labour has been great to big business who pay rock bottom wages knowing that the taxpayers will have to foot the bill for working tax credits. The crunch will come next April when those payments will be cut drastically, prepare for unrest.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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#3
Making the need for unions all the more important
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