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oli you post"CrystalBall, it's not just the CWU. The standard working week for France has been 35 hours since 2000. This was a move by their socialist party to cut the unemployment rate.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/35-hour_workweek
It should also encourage a better work/life balance and having worked 60+ hour weeks for long periods in my 20s, 30s and 40s when I had a mortgage and young children I can applaud. I would have liked to have spent more time with my kids when they were small but needed the money." you worked all those hours to buy a property so did I and many more.... in france their ethic is property is theft a very left wing thought... most in france rent so can afford to do 35hrs a week.. they have no buy at all costs culture like we have in the uk… so rents are lower than ours and no need to buy.... with low interest rates we have had over the last 10 years things are changing fast over there and I know as have family there...
yup,.... you did the hours for what you needed, you worked for that income... these dyas people want more for less, and seriously overvalue what they are worth.
the french model for reducing unemployment would have been based on the unemployed picking up the slack in relation to getting a job and covering those lost hours from existing workforce, that only works if you cut off their benefits, otherwise they just say crew it, i can get the same on benefits.
yup, and the french are considered lazy b**tards compared to a number of other countries when it comes to work ethic
CrystalBall, the problem with the unions is that they get in the way of unscrupulous employers who, given half a chance, would flaunt the employment laws and only get into trouble after an accident that involved the H&S executive, which is also a thorn in the side of businesses. Come to think about it, so are HMRC.
Therefore, if we could abolish the unions, H&S executive, HMRC and the Government, UK businesses would flourish.
Job done!
CrystalBall, it's not just the CWU. The standard working week for France has been 35 hours since 2000. This was a move by their socialist party to cut the unemployment rate.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/35-hour_workweek
It should also encourage a better work/life balance and having worked 60+ hour weeks for long periods in my 20s, 30s and 40s when I had a mortgage and young children I can applaud. I would have liked to have spent more time with my kids when they were small but needed the money.
oops, meant "thought that might be the case" not "think"
ok thanks i think that might be the case, it strikes me as a strange policy, in a time when industry needs to be fighting and striving to deliver for it's own survival, that the unions are trying to impose something that would affect that outcome by reducing productivity, although there is i am sure some thinking in there that the extra hours that would be needed to still complete the job would be overtime, which of course cuts into profits and then the operating fund you may have.
The more and more i see of union activity, the more i see it as a hindrance to business and an archaic left over remnant from state owned businesses, which turns into a millstone when the company is no longer state run. (which is funny, considering i am a member of one lol)
It is part of the original agreement made with Moya Green and reneged on by Back. The CWU are the driving force behind this.
the reduction to the working hours per week, originally who was the driving force behind it, and why ? was it the staff, the unions, RM themselves trying to cut costs ?