What’s Happening?? The Truth About Work…& The Myth of “Work-Life Balance”.

 

 

Workers, activists, union supporters… Find out

“What’s Happening??”

in the workplace – today!!

 

 In 1998, a range of workplace trade union activists provided contributions to a much-appreciated pamphlet, “What’s Happening?? The Truth About Work…& the Myth of Partnership”. The pamphlet focused on strategies and tactics that work – both in winning victories against management and getting members involved.

 

Now, ten years later, “What’s Happening?? The Truth About Work…& the Myth of Work-Life Balance” tells us more about that much-ignored  topic – exactly what goes on at work.

This time, even more contributions – from workers in sectors ranging from buses to building work, telecomms to teaching – show us once again that whatever the area of work, management objectives and working pressures are eerily similar. With an editorial linking these common themes together, What’s Happening?? continues to be essential reading for anyone wanting to make a difference to the problems of falling pay, ever-increasing intensification and management bullying facing workers today.    

 

 

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What’s Happening??

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ANOTHER BEAUT FROM THE PAGES OF “LEAN”

 

The recent dispute at the Grangemount refinery in Scotland shows just how far employers are prepared to go, in order to diminish terms and conditions long since fought for and won. They are prepared to lose millions of pounds, to gain just what exactly?

Are the pension payments crippling this struggling company? (Struggling?)

Are we to believe that this company will go to the wall if it can’t make the changes to the pension fund that it wants?

I think not and I do not think that this is the case in any other company that has proposed or implemented similar changes.

The problems faced by workers today, will be multiplied many times over when the workers retire, these short term gains by employers, will, in my humble opinion, come back to haunt us all, when retirees will be dependent on the state for support, after a lifetime of work.

We are led to believe that the company wants one off changes to the scheme, more like the thin end of the wedge as far as I can see, what’s next I wonder?

Perhaps paying the owner for permission to go to work? Or some other such gem from the expanding branches of “Lean”.

Paying to go to work is not so far fetched ask anyone who works for the NHS if they have to pay to park!!!! Workers mainly at the lower end of the pay scale that is.