....see the point in replying.
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Apparently, he can't
The investors?
I'll get on the phone to Maccies and ask......
How bad must a management be to, and how pi$$ poor must the working conditions be to predict 100% that your workers will strike.
Jeez!
Jeez how bad must a notorious agitator / trade union baron be to wreck the car industry.
Pretty bad, judging by Red Robbo, one of Corbyns communist heros. His unions stranglehold on the car industry put 18,000 workers on the dole queue.
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This bad...........
Maccies workers feel the same. Better off on the dole.
Is this the article from which you picked two sentences?
https://www.ft.com/content/f98a59e6-bef2-11e7-b8a3-38a6e068f464
The rest of it is somewhat more favourable.
Edited - Spelt 'the' wrong(ly).
https://www.ft.com/content/f98a59e6-bef2-11e7-b8a3-38a6e068f464
The rest of it is somewhat more favourable.
Edited - Spelt 'the' wrong(ly).
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Eeyore is making stuff up again.
Red Robbo was in the 70's.
Corbyn did not enter politics until the 80s ('83)
Oh dear, oh dear, what person thinks a hero can only be somebody that is of the same working age....
Almost certainly a person with donkey brains
Have you asked them?
Employees?Calling them "workers" shows how badly you misjudged the situation
Which ones?
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Only someone without the brains of a donkey could assert that Robbo and Corbyn were 'comrades'.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Corbyn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Robinson_(trade_unionist)
BMC went bankrupt in the mid 1970s and was bailed out by the Labour government. Tony Benn was the Trade & Industry Secretary at the time. With hindsight, if BMC had been allowed to go under at that time, the phoenix which would have arisen from those ashes would have been much slimmer, more efficient and free of the domination by communist-infiltrated unions which hamstrung both workers and management.
Because of this, and the constant strikes and ever-increasing wage demands, investment in plant and equipment was minimal, which affected worker morale, not only on the shop floor. This is probably the reason why the BMC/BL cars of the 1960s and 70s were SO horrible and swines to work on. When the book time to replace the clutch on an Austin 1800 was in days rather than hours, then it proves something has to be wrong. Even the Maxis and Allegros with the E-Series engine showed significant design flaws in some respects. And continuing to use the A-series engine (which dated from the late 1940s) had to be an act of madness!
Because of this, and the constant strikes and ever-increasing wage demands, investment in plant and equipment was minimal, which affected worker morale, not only on the shop floor. This is probably the reason why the BMC/BL cars of the 1960s and 70s were SO horrible and swines to work on. When the book time to replace the clutch on an Austin 1800 was in days rather than hours, then it proves something has to be wrong. Even the Maxis and Allegros with the E-Series engine showed significant design flaws in some respects. And continuing to use the A-series engine (which dated from the late 1940s) had to be an act of madness!
Never, ever try to replace a clutch on an E series with it in the car
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