Fair play?

[kleinboet]

Workers have been angry that a sub-contractor was "excluding" British workers by importing a ready-made workforce from Europe.

 

The deal, arising out of Acas talks, offers more than 100 new jobs for British workers out of a disputed 195.

 

CC I think that these two paragraphs are what you are talking about.

 

The company who got the job was going to supply migrant workers from their country in breach of the original remit! They have now relented and offered MORE than 50% to British workers!! There are NO new jobs available!

[captain cojones]

Thanks for the info, I read article 10 of the Establishment Directive 98/5/EC. Interesting that! I shall have a word with him. It looks like that legislation was passed whilst he was studying law! Methinks he was not giving us the full information at the time. Bloody kids, any excuse to get out of work!

 

cheers worms.its the same situation in spain

we have the napolionic,type system as well.

the uk lawyers thaty are qualified here do VERY well for themselves,owing to the large number of non spanish speaking british.

regards.

[captain cojones]

Workers have been angry that a sub-contractor was "excluding" British workers by importing a ready-made workforce from Europe.

 

The deal, arising out of Acas talks, offers more than 100 new jobs for British workers out of a disputed 195.

 

CC I think that these two paragraphs are what you are talking about.

 

The company who got the job was going to supply migrant workers from their country in breach of the original remit! They have now relented and offered MORE than 50% to British workers!! There are NO new jobs available!

 

quote from the second para...

"The deal, arising out of Acas talks, offers more than 100 new jobs for British"

 

notice the two words........."NEW JOBS".........its in your own quote!!!!!!

 

 

quote from 4th para...............

"The BBC understands no foreign workers will lose their posts" ...

 

in other words they havent"relented".......i have no idea what you mean by"in breach of the original remit".

they put in for the contract,they won the contract......using their on specialist team.........which is still going ahead.

hence the second quote..................

 

another quote from further down

"Acas said that a recommendation for 101 new jobs for a defined period was to be put to a mass workers meeting"

 

notice the words !101 NEW JOBS".

 

its a very clear article,i really am losing the will to live with this.

[Alan Stubbs]

its a very clear article,i really am losing the will to live with this.

 

 

CC as I said in an earlier post, I think people are looking for conspiracy theories which simply aren't there.

[kleinboet]

CC - It would appear that you are only reading what you want to read - The WHOLE thing reads as follows highlights by me:

The deal, arising out of Acas talks, offers more than 100 new jobs for British workers out of a disputed 195.

 

This was what all the debate was about - there has been no new jobs on the table, what they have done is relented (or realised that they had unintentially done wrong) and offered the jobs to the locals!!

[captain cojones]

ummm....it was 195 new jobs that they wanted......after discussions with ACAS.....they settled for 100.

these were "new,extra" jobs,that didnt exist until the ACAS intervention.

 

im sorry KB....but you are completely mis-reading the article.whether its on purpose,or for some other reason.

nobody else seems to see what you see.

im not prepared to continue trying to point out the relevent words.

best regards,carry on as you were.

[kleinboet]

I don't know about "misreading" - I just post what I hear and read in full!

 

The only other thing I can add is that if that was the case - why are the workers stopping their protest?

Edited February 6, 2009 by kleinboet

[Alan Stubbs]

why are the workers stopping their protest?

 

Because they recognise their protests were a waste of time and a deterrent to other employers looking to take them on?

[kleinboet]

Oh silly me!!!! That has to be the obvious answer. There was me - thinking that these workers (hardened unionists) stopped because they made the country sit up and take notice about how they were being SCREWED!!!