Vauxhall workers agree to ditch summer shutdown..and about time too!!

[PeteMorris]

I see Vauxhall workers had the good news that the Elesmere port factory was being kept open and will be making the new Astra in place of the Germans winning the contract.

 

In the process, I see that they have agreed to ditch the traditional July/Aug shutdown too, and accept a pay freeze.

 

Do you think other companies will follow suit in regard to the traditional shutdown? Will this have an impact upon the yoyo prices of holidays, which traditionally are extortionate in those weeks?

 

I do hope so

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2145785/End-long-summer-shutdown-Vauxhall-staff-ditch-perks-work-round-clock-save-factory-German-threat.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

[mindfieldz]

You see, we can do it when we try....Unions and management working TOGETHER to acheive something positive.

[charliewag]

the company i work for hasn't had a summer shutdown for years. we can have a week/fortnight holiday at any time but only a certain number can be off at any one time.

with regards to the ellesmere port agreement , general motors had the workforce by the short and curlys (agree to our terms or lose your job).

[alchresearch]

Superb news. Although some credit must go to Vince Cable who has spent a lot of time convincing GM that it was a good thing.

[Jim Graham]

the company i work for hasn't had a summer shutdown for years. we can have a week/fortnight holiday at any time but only a certain number can be off at any one time.

with regards to the ellesmere port agreement , general motors had the workforce by the short and curlys (agree to our terms or lose your job).

 

Typical. I suppose this is another case of the downtrodden worker being exploited by the management and government. Those poor, starving car workers will have to sell their internal organs to put food on the table while the management eat caviar off the backs of dancing girls.

 

Just maybe, the workers have finally realised that the unions and their stupid socialist militancy just end up putting everyone out of work.

[*Turbo*]

We have a shut down in Summer as well as Easter. Complete waste of time. What makes it worse is that fitters are off as well.

 

Well use to be until I questioned one of the directors in our weekly meeting what business sense is there to have fitters off when the factory is shut down:hihi:

[bazjea]

I cannot see that not having a factory close down in July August will make

much difference to the rip off high holiday prices. As the schools close

down for 6 weeks in July and August. And children are not supposed to be taken out of school for holidays, other than when schools are closed

[tinfoilhat]

Well played the chaps at the 'port. I hope the quality of them is top draw.

 

I find it strange though that us Brits can build cars for Japanese firms and build them and design them for American firms (and loads of others no doubt) to great acclaim but when it comes to be being a British run,design and build ie rover we haven't got a clue.

[Resident]

Well played the chaps at the 'port. I hope the quality of them is top draw.

 

I find it strange though that us Brits can build cars for Japanese firms and build them and design them for American firms (and loads of others no doubt) to great acclaim but when it comes to be being a British run,design and build ie rover we haven't got a clue.

 

MG/Rover was mis-managed from the top (BMW) and allowed the UK directors to run wild without checking up.

 

In fact MG/Rover was making a decent comeback with the ZR/ZS/ZT/MG-TF (as well as the non-sports verions of each variant) however the damage was done and it collasped in on itself.

[PeteMorris]

My holidays are fixed and it drives me nuts. Apart from the expense of things during those weeks, I'm forced to have a weeks holiday in flippin' October!!!!Now where's the sense in that? I can't afford foreign holidays, so a week in October for me is just completely pointless. A wasted week, where I end up doing nothing in particular!