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“Is Lean Production Making You Tired”
- Lean Production is the new work phenomena and affects most workers in all industries, are you affected?
- Please feel free to leave comments and your views.
- Please respect other peoples opininions, right or wrong.
- Any message that is in any way offensive will be deleted.
- What I am looking for is a high level debate on the subject of Lean Production, to try and de-mystify this new working method and put it in its proper place.
- For example if you have taken early retirement because you cannot keep up with the production process, then this is an example of Lean Making You Tired!!!
Please contribute……….
Thank You
1 November, 2007 at 3:09 pm
Lean is creatign major problems for people across the globe whatever the sector. From automotives to hospitals, from the cleaning services in a town near you to the armed forces, lean is the major way in which capitalism is drivng home neo-liberalism today. the big, big question is – how do we fight it?
13 November, 2007 at 2:48 pm
Now we find that lean production is the next panacea for hospitals! In the executive summary to the paper “How can a NHS Hospital become a ‘lean’ hospital?” the claim tha t”lean thinking is relatively easy – especially is you stay focused and do what is best for the patients”!! the article then suggest that yo can change the hospital only if you change the culture first. The the answer is what they term “patient flow”. the problem is that in the real world what is happening, is that patients are beign pushed out before they are ready in many instances. Yuo cannot run a hospital in the way you can commercial activity. Why not?
What do you think?
15 November, 2007 at 11:13 pm
‘Will Lean Production kill me?’
Not in the sense that everyone thinks, because I left the car industry to get away from it. Well I thought I had escaped it and therefore it no longer posed a threat to my wellbeing. How wrong could I be because look at the state of the once great NHS, the shining light in our society to be held up for the rest of the world to envy. The Lean Production monster has now got hold of it and is slowly strangling it to death. The cuts in the workforce nurses, doctors and cleaners is causing problems everywhere from tired doctors, nurses leaving for pastures new and most frighteningly the spectre of the super bug MRSA, AND I THOUGHT I HAD ESCAPED ITS CLUTCHES, SILLY ME !!!
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18 November, 2007 at 4:21 pm
Muffa, in connection with counter strategies to fighting lean you pose highlight ‘big big question is – how do we fight it?
In part you’ve provided an answer by setting up sites like this and empowering workers across the globe to post their experiences and share practice about campaigns and strategies to overcome the excesses of lean production. Nice one!
Using this medium, it might be useful to post the work of worker/TU friendly researchers; resources, slides etc, for use by workers in all industries who may be encountering ‘lean’ for the first time or those out there who’ve been fighting it for a while and might want to invigerate their efforts by communicating with fellow ‘lean guerillas’! I’ll keep visiting and contribute as appropriate.
19 November, 2007 at 7:39 am
Steve,
Yes you have it in one, whilst I appreciate that the fight against new work methods is a difficult one, it is also a necessary one, the exchange of information will at least keep us up with the game.
M