Raw Deal - Kraft and Cadbury

[Elspode]

I find it disturbing that the top two or three people in any major corporation are so indispensible, so inarguably necessary to the success or failure of the company, while apparently the rank and file are as interchangeable and disposable as a goddamn box of Kleenex.

Somehow it seems far more logical to me that thousands of skilled workers are a great deal more critical to the success of a given firm than a single suit.

[richlevy]

Originally Posted by Elspode

Somehow it seems far more logical to me that thousands of skilled workers are a great deal more critical to the success of a given firm than a single suit.

Hence unions. Do I think some unions have gone too far? Yes. Do I think that CEO greed and arrogance have far outstripped anything that any union has ever attempted? Oh yes.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by richlevy

Hence unions. Do I think some unions have gone too far? Yes. Do I think that CEO greed and arrogance have far outstripped anything that any union has ever attempted? Oh yes.

Now here is an example of some of that common sense I said elsewhere I was looking for from Rich.

[be-bop]

There are a glut of companies in the UK and elsewhere using the credit crunch or whatever they are calling the slowdown this week to have a major review of workers terms and conditions,pay and pension rights.
The government of the UK hands are dirty in this respect also as public sector jobs, terms and conditions are being squeezed.
That's why it's becoming back to the 70's and 80's over here as there are strikes and disputes every week as workers are getting to point of saying enough is enough.
The Labour Government never seem to learn from history as they seem to want to fight the public sector once again which the last time got them kicked out of power and the witch Thatcher was in power for 18 years.

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by Elspode

I find it disturbing that the top two or three people in any major corporation are so indispensible, so inarguably necessary to the success or failure of the company, while apparently the rank and file are as interchangeable and disposable as a goddamn box of Kleenex.

Somehow it seems far more logical to me that thousands of skilled workers are a great deal more critical to the success of a given firm than a single suit.

I think the issue is that a bunch of CEO's sit on each others' board of directors, and they keep helping each other out.