@swimfeeders ,We had all of that back in the late forties/ early fifties
Swimmy, payed apprenticeshiips with day release technical college,
a structured pay scale for five years ,tea breaks, payed 3 weeks holidays,
limited sick pay, subsidised company canteen, etc! etc! Oh yes, and a
monthly sccial club meeting in the canteen !!
sounds like shang-ri- la dont it ??
But this was under Atlees socialist government who gave the employers
large tax breaks to comply !!
I was lucky, l had finished my apprenticeship before the tories got in again !!
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Actions speak louder than words. Not saying it won’t happen, but often these things are meant in good spirit but generally don’t happen because shareholders complain like mad.
Oh ye of little faith.
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Hi
No, I don’t think it wrong
I accept it as a fact of life, it is how our system works here in the UK.
The companies involved did not plan or arrange this state of affairs.
That was Putin.
What I do think is totally wrong is our unique system of energy supply and the fact that the Companies involved have not paid the appropriate Tax on it.
Rather than pay the Tax and respond in a sensible manner by restricting their own profits and pumping money into insulating the homes of those least able to do so themselves, they have used every trick in the book to keep all the excess profits to management and investors.
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And it continues:
The UK’s biggest supermarket chain said pre-tax profits hit £2.3bn, up from £882m, while sales rose by 4.4% to £68.2bn in the year to 24 February.
The CEO of Woolworths was threatened with gaol time when he appeared before a Senate inquiry into price gouging by the supermarket chains
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