First...
Gordon Brown makes his racist remark: "Gordon Brown said in 2007... British jobs for British workers".
Then...
Brown warns countries against protectionism
Gordon Brown warned today that countries must not resort to protectionism to drag their respective economies out of the global downturn.
"About 700 employees at the Ineos-owned Grangemouth plant on the Firth of Forth have begun an unofficial strike in solidarity with fellow energy workers at the Total Lindsey Oil Refinery on the North Lincolnshire coast...Although I’m told there are no redundancies arising from the contract going to the Italian company, if you are out of work, it can seem so unfair".
Sack the bloody lot of 'em! There's many who would be glad to work at the present time.
I think they want to work but the jobs are going to foreigners.
ReplyDeleteThey do want work and the jobs are going to foreigners as James has said. I can understand this as I lost two jobs and was replaced at a cheaper wage (in both instances by Malaysians) and I am interested in Comrade Brown's promise of British jobs for British workers when - after hearing this latest news - was quoted as being "sympathetic".....doh!
ReplyDeleteIt would appear to be more a case of the NuLabor pigeons coming home to roost.
ReplyDeleteAfter three terms of NuLabor education and training policies we do not have the necessary skills base in the UK for the contract at Lindsey.
Also perversely to what we were by Tony Wots his Name told about the UK having a flexible work force; Total decided a permanently employed labour base was a better option for this contract, than the usual UK agency workers or, subbies!
IT TURNS OUT that after the company had stated that they were bringing in specialised qualified labour to do "engineering work" they are actually employing labourers.
ReplyDeleteSo it turns out that it is definately cheaper to hire foreign agency staff than to keep the firm british. That was the idea behind putting them all up on a floating barge rather than pay to keep them in Cleethorpes guest houses. Totaly cut out any british interest.
If thats the case, why don't the whole company FECK OFF TO SPAIN OR PORTUGAL so they don't have to muddy their stinking feet on british soil?
Also, may I just add that yesterday my bro-in-law Frank was called in to the office along with all the other lads in the construction company they work for and told that they must either accept a pay cut thus bringing them down to the "minimum wage" or the firm would sack them all and take on foreign labour.
ReplyDeleteThis shite is starting to repeat itself all over england.