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.
