RE: oldskool28 May 2018 21:50
Erm, bit of plot losing going on here like.... My dad bought his council house under laws passed by Harold Wilson from a labour controlled town council in the early seventies. When I started full time work in 1976 at ICI I was amazed that the company thought that much of its workers that they provided car ports in the factory in case chemicals dropped on them from pipework.. I later found out they had name plates of the senior management on them. We had works canteens, for workers. Staff canteens for staff. grill rooms with bars for senior site management. And, on the top floor of the fertiliser offices the directors had their own restaurant. The works managers had drinks cabinets and sherry at 10.00. there was a fleet of Daimler Sovereigns which took the senior management to lunch at the nearby Halls and Country houses the firm owned. We had a workers pension fund, a staff pension fund and a black, pink and white book pension fund. The sole purpose of our personnel function was to keep good industrial relations... Industrial action was never an issue... I became unionised ( if that's the right term) because one day when I was mending JCB a green engineer told me I was lucky to have a job and the two million on the dole would be glad of it.... I became site shop steward the following week., I tortured them without remorse or pity.. I saw safety standards that where hideous , hundreds of cases of asbestosis and a l predicted fatality's and they happened. I watched with great fascination as over 20 years the entire capitalist process simply moves its self to the cheapest safest base... Now's that's real protectionism in action oldie. The most powerful labour unions survive and prosper. The politicians , the lawyers and barrister's, the doctors, dentists and senior police and armed forces and senior civil service.. The establishment is where the real protectionism is ... I'll leave it there before I really warm up.
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