Year: 2004
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: Sometimes when I’m with people who are in equivalent positions to me you hear views like, ‘well, they’re just cheap labour’… they really don’t give a shit about the people. They look at a person as, how much have you turned over for me, how much profit, how little can I keep you for, and how bad can I make your conditions before the Health and Safety walk in? The sadness is, bastards often do make a lot of money. I sat recently with [the owner-manager of a] company, a wellknown company, with 1400 employees – and their [staff] turnover in the year is 600. One of my girls who [worked] there, she said, ‘I felt as if I had a job. I walked in and I walked out, and there was nothing in between’. I’ve had people come to work for me who’ve come up in that sort of environment, and I’ve had a terrible job breaking through – if you go up and say good morning you almost see them cower in front of you, it takes quite a bit of bringing them out, because they would feel exposed, they’re suspicious. When they’ve been in the hands of these people, and they’re totally helpless to do anything about it because they need the money – that really sickens me. I think they should clear the bloody boardrooms out, because it’s not often the people.
Source: Routledge eBooks
Author: Scott Taylor
Language: English
Topic: Labor Movements and Unions
Subfield: Public Administration
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4293090860