Originally Posted by
ORAC
I don’t think that makes things sound better, rather it makes things even worse.
Company is in a bad way, reliant on the government guarantee which they have been advised they can’t give under the rules, and add the unions on top.
I suppose they can hope the next government will bend the rules, but I doubt defence will be high on their list of priorities.
Agreed. But I think a lot of people point at unions = bad (which they undoubtedly have been in many cases), without also recognising that by and large UK management has been (and largely still is) dismal.
H&W is probably a case in point. I don't think the union negotiations are the worst of their problems.