cadbury job losses and investment announcements december 2011
“Our view is that if Kraft is investing £44 million for the expansion of its UK factories there should be no job losses and we will be strongly pressing for that outcome when we talk to management about this issue in the new year.
“We are also concerned that the company continues in its refusal to share its mid-to-long term business plans with us and its refusal to say that there won’t be compulsory redundancies in the future.
“We also deplore Kraft’s tactics of announcing this by press release – to the media first – without the courtesy of telling the workforce in advance. It is wrong that the first that hundreds of employees will hear about the threat to their jobs will be through the media.”
How does this compare with the German union worker business relations, supervisory boards?
"... view.... no job losses..." where is the logic in this quote?
Labour is overhead and investment is capital expenditure, there seems to be a confusion.
The population seems to lack financial and business concepts education.
Capital must not be confused with income. Capital can can only last so long when used to pay wages.
I suspect in the German "mittelstand" model there is more pragmatism and thinking that the customer is king and that forms the commercial environment
E M Forster The Machine Stops
Transforming the Industrial State: The Ultimate Complex System Challenge — Nicholas A. Ashford, PhD, JD Professor of Technology and Policy, MIT Director, MIT Technology and Law Program
The Job Guarantee as an Alternative to Enforced Idleness. But What Will They Do? Examples from the WPA
State of Nature Public works Programmes state subsidies
Production processes: A lightbulb moment
The Robot Hiring Boom Has Arrived
Europe’s Market-Led Integration Joschka Fischer
Look Past Taxes to Fix Global Puzzle of Inequality: Clive Crook
Reasons for poor productivity remain a puzzle
“We are also concerned that the company continues in its refusal to share its mid-to-long term business plans with us and its refusal to say that there won’t be compulsory redundancies in the future.
“We also deplore Kraft’s tactics of announcing this by press release – to the media first – without the courtesy of telling the workforce in advance. It is wrong that the first that hundreds of employees will hear about the threat to their jobs will be through the media.”
How does this compare with the German union worker business relations, supervisory boards?
"... view.... no job losses..." where is the logic in this quote?
Labour is overhead and investment is capital expenditure, there seems to be a confusion.
The population seems to lack financial and business concepts education.
Capital must not be confused with income. Capital can can only last so long when used to pay wages.
I suspect in the German "mittelstand" model there is more pragmatism and thinking that the customer is king and that forms the commercial environment
E M Forster The Machine Stops
Transforming the Industrial State: The Ultimate Complex System Challenge — Nicholas A. Ashford, PhD, JD Professor of Technology and Policy, MIT Director, MIT Technology and Law Program
The Job Guarantee as an Alternative to Enforced Idleness. But What Will They Do? Examples from the WPA
State of Nature Public works Programmes state subsidies
Production processes: A lightbulb moment
The Robot Hiring Boom Has Arrived
Europe’s Market-Led Integration Joschka Fischer
Look Past Taxes to Fix Global Puzzle of Inequality: Clive Crook
Reasons for poor productivity remain a puzzle
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