Thu 1 Mar 2012 12.27 EST
The UK needs shorter factory leases and looser employment laws if it is to thrive in manufacturing, the industrialist Sir James Dyson said.
Dyson said he had seen too many occasions where unions did not act in everyone’s interests. “I don’t think trade unions have been helpful because they show things as divisive. As a modern employer you have to treat people well.”
12 nov 2017
Asked how manufacturing in Britain can be revitalised after Brexit, Sir James blamed, in part, Britain’s “very difficult” employment laws.
He added that it should be “easier to hire and fire” people.
Sir James also called for corporation tax should be “eliminated”.
In early 2021, Dyson was provided with further evidence of alleged squalid and overcrowded worker accommodation and reports of exploitation at the factory. The allegations were so serious, an investigation was launched by US Customs and Border Protection.10 Feb 2022
Spent £300 on a Dyson. Absolute dog shit vacuum cleaner. Preferred Henry but she bought a shark which is top draw.
When we recently renewed our contract with the government we added a clause that next year’s rate would increase by +CPI%
Because otherwise we are taking a paycut.
Every employee in the UK should be demanding a similar rise or you are being robbed.
General Strike until we rejoin the EU!
There is a justification but… they ain’t gonna like it.
You just need to work harder! The economy certainly works, because Chancellor *doubled* his wealth in the last two years! /s
They’re right, every year you don’t get a pay rise above inflation, you’re effectively getting a pay cut.
This has been happening in HMRC (you know the ones tasked with collecting stuff, to pay for stuff), the Home Office, those dealing with Insolvency/Bankruptcy, pretty much any department that could hit the rich. Including Debt Management.
But Benefits Investigations etc tooled up. And any working class sectors, NHS, subbies, plumbers, chippies, sparks get letters threatening legal action straight out of the blocks.
HMIT(Her Majesties Inspector of Taxes)
We will collect the correct amount of tax.
HMRC (Her Majesties Revenue and Customs)
We will collect the most amount of tax.
Now
They can always appeal.
Defunding. Across the board.
It’s clear. People who criticise this strike do so for 3 reasons:
1) It’s not in their self-interest (business owner).
2) Politically dogmatic (Thatcherism)
3) American Dream
(people who believe they’re a potential millionaire and replicate capital owner rhetoric)
We are ALL getting poorer every year. We are ALL being fucked.
Just a question about strikes as I’ve never been involved in one or in a union or anything so don’t know how it works, what happens if you work somewhere but aren’t in the union for that industry and a strike is announced but you decide not to join in with the strike yourself and continue working? Is this what ‘scabs’ are? It seems a bit unfair if you’d have to go along with a strike whether you want to or not for fear of being ostracised or there being retributions when you just want to keep your head down and get on with your job!
Innovative idea: stop working for the government
While I support the strikers I wonder as to how they voted this last decade as the Conservatives came for people of a lower socio-economic level and destroyed their quality of life also.
Meanwhile at £70k/year Street the residents are getting nervous…
Solidarity. And I just left London and was affected by the strike. Had to sleep in Gatwick with hundreds of others to make sure I could get on a 6 a.m. flight.
We have a Government that hands million pound contracts to the local pub manager, friends and family, long as they vote Tory. We are visibly poorer because of our current set of posh boys, handing off the costs direct to the consumer. This was going on way before Ukraine kicked off, or Brexit.
Since Dyson moved his operation then blamed it on the EU, I’ve never purchased a Dyson device and never will again. Besides, Miele make far better products, so it did me a favour to switch.
It’s funny how Bojo de Piffle says that he wants a “high skill, high wage economy” when the complete opposite is true. Brexit was always about what Dyson is talking about here. And all is took was some lies on a bus and xenophobia and little Englanders fell for it hook, line and sinker.
The Tories love the British public – they’re so easy to steal from.
I know people expect their jobs to constantly get an above inflation pay rise but that’s not how the world works. The world changes, customers stop using a thing and switch to another thing and people get lower pay rises or made redundant. How many travel agents went out of business because of the internet? And what happened to those staff? They got a huge pay cut to £0 salary as they were made redundant.
Covid has led to most commuters either not travelling by train or doing it a few times a week. Season ticket sales are less than 1/3rd of what they were before Covid. There’s a hole of about £200m/month in rail’s finances. Savings have to be made to balance the books. If the government gives the RMT another 10% to run half empty trains, that either means raising taxes or cutting another part of government.
If rail is to survive, which I assume the RMT would like, restructuring has to happen. That means all sorts of things including trying to work out how to run the service with less people, or with cheaper people. There is no way around this. The government is going to start cutting funding, and National Rail will start making people redundant, whether the RMT like it or not. Striking is not going to solve that problem.
At this point with inflation even if they got a raise they’d earn the same amount lol
Yes, it’s called Amazon.
Just leave. If you don’t want to work for the amount of money the employer is willing to give you you don’t have to.
An employer doesn’t owe you a certain wage just because you want it. Imagine going into a shop and complaining to them that the products are too expensive. Just fuck off then.
I support the strike but I wish they would do something else my gf has had to catch taxis each day since her work refuse to accept here being late because of the strikes . Can’t they just protest buy letting everyone ride the train for free for the week?
Breaking news. Prices have gone up . Breaking news 2. Well paid lefties think their employer should compensate them for it.
Of effing course he would say that!
There seems to be some mad focus on railwayworkers and money. For them it’s so much more than that and for the rest of employees it’s a big part of it.
But how else will the Tories get their money?
For many in this country it’s a slow (actually not that slow) death by a thousand pay freezes or less than inflation pay awards.
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Thu 1 Mar 2012 12.27 EST
The UK needs shorter factory leases and looser employment laws if it is to thrive in manufacturing, the industrialist Sir James Dyson said.
Dyson said he had seen too many occasions where unions did not act in everyone’s interests. “I don’t think trade unions have been helpful because they show things as divisive. As a modern employer you have to treat people well.”
12 nov 2017
Asked how manufacturing in Britain can be revitalised after Brexit, Sir James blamed, in part, Britain’s “very difficult” employment laws.
He added that it should be “easier to hire and fire” people.
Sir James also called for corporation tax should be “eliminated”.
In early 2021, Dyson was provided with further evidence of alleged squalid and overcrowded worker accommodation and reports of exploitation at the factory. The allegations were so serious, an investigation was launched by US Customs and Border Protection.10 Feb 2022
Spent £300 on a Dyson. Absolute dog shit vacuum cleaner. Preferred Henry but she bought a shark which is top draw.
When we recently renewed our contract with the government we added a clause that next year’s rate would increase by +CPI%
Because otherwise we are taking a paycut.
Every employee in the UK should be demanding a similar rise or you are being robbed.
General Strike until we rejoin the EU!
There is a justification but… they ain’t gonna like it.
You just need to work harder! The economy certainly works, because Chancellor *doubled* his wealth in the last two years! /s
They’re right, every year you don’t get a pay rise above inflation, you’re effectively getting a pay cut.
This has been happening in HMRC (you know the ones tasked with collecting stuff, to pay for stuff), the Home Office, those dealing with Insolvency/Bankruptcy, pretty much any department that could hit the rich. Including Debt Management.
But Benefits Investigations etc tooled up. And any working class sectors, NHS, subbies, plumbers, chippies, sparks get letters threatening legal action straight out of the blocks.
HMIT(Her Majesties Inspector of Taxes)
We will collect the correct amount of tax.
HMRC (Her Majesties Revenue and Customs)
We will collect the most amount of tax.
Now
They can always appeal.
Defunding. Across the board.
It’s clear. People who criticise this strike do so for 3 reasons:
1) It’s not in their self-interest (business owner).
2) Politically dogmatic (Thatcherism)
3) American Dream
(people who believe they’re a potential millionaire and replicate capital owner rhetoric)
We are ALL getting poorer every year. We are ALL being fucked.
Just a question about strikes as I’ve never been involved in one or in a union or anything so don’t know how it works, what happens if you work somewhere but aren’t in the union for that industry and a strike is announced but you decide not to join in with the strike yourself and continue working? Is this what ‘scabs’ are? It seems a bit unfair if you’d have to go along with a strike whether you want to or not for fear of being ostracised or there being retributions when you just want to keep your head down and get on with your job!
Innovative idea: stop working for the government
While I support the strikers I wonder as to how they voted this last decade as the Conservatives came for people of a lower socio-economic level and destroyed their quality of life also.
Meanwhile at £70k/year Street the residents are getting nervous…
Solidarity. And I just left London and was affected by the strike. Had to sleep in Gatwick with hundreds of others to make sure I could get on a 6 a.m. flight.
We have a Government that hands million pound contracts to the local pub manager, friends and family, long as they vote Tory. We are visibly poorer because of our current set of posh boys, handing off the costs direct to the consumer. This was going on way before Ukraine kicked off, or Brexit.
Since Dyson moved his operation then blamed it on the EU, I’ve never purchased a Dyson device and never will again. Besides, Miele make far better products, so it did me a favour to switch.
It’s funny how Bojo de Piffle says that he wants a “high skill, high wage economy” when the complete opposite is true. Brexit was always about what Dyson is talking about here. And all is took was some lies on a bus and xenophobia and little Englanders fell for it hook, line and sinker.
The Tories love the British public – they’re so easy to steal from.
I know people expect their jobs to constantly get an above inflation pay rise but that’s not how the world works. The world changes, customers stop using a thing and switch to another thing and people get lower pay rises or made redundant. How many travel agents went out of business because of the internet? And what happened to those staff? They got a huge pay cut to £0 salary as they were made redundant.
Covid has led to most commuters either not travelling by train or doing it a few times a week. Season ticket sales are less than 1/3rd of what they were before Covid. There’s a hole of about £200m/month in rail’s finances. Savings have to be made to balance the books. If the government gives the RMT another 10% to run half empty trains, that either means raising taxes or cutting another part of government.
If rail is to survive, which I assume the RMT would like, restructuring has to happen. That means all sorts of things including trying to work out how to run the service with less people, or with cheaper people. There is no way around this. The government is going to start cutting funding, and National Rail will start making people redundant, whether the RMT like it or not. Striking is not going to solve that problem.
At this point with inflation even if they got a raise they’d earn the same amount lol
Yes, it’s called Amazon.
Just leave. If you don’t want to work for the amount of money the employer is willing to give you you don’t have to.
An employer doesn’t owe you a certain wage just because you want it. Imagine going into a shop and complaining to them that the products are too expensive. Just fuck off then.
I support the strike but I wish they would do something else my gf has had to catch taxis each day since her work refuse to accept here being late because of the strikes . Can’t they just protest buy letting everyone ride the train for free for the week?
Breaking news. Prices have gone up . Breaking news 2. Well paid lefties think their employer should compensate them for it.
Of effing course he would say that!
There seems to be some mad focus on railwayworkers and money. For them it’s so much more than that and for the rest of employees it’s a big part of it.
But how else will the Tories get their money?
For many in this country it’s a slow (actually not that slow) death by a thousand pay freezes or less than inflation pay awards.