Civvies working the Line at ISK.....
Exrigger,
Not often I agree with you, however what concerns me is, just look at the naval industry for far too long now contracts have been undercut to the point that the quality goes out the window through a system called reverse-auctioning ie cheapest wins. What happens when the customer goes through another bad year, will he put the contract out for competition, again? If so, then these currently qualified to type techies will jump ship to the next company just to keep a job for probably less £'s and the quality factor may slip again (less money less incentive to do the job properly possibly)? Maybe what we need is a minimum wage for all qualified personnel coming into industry and only suitable personnel qualified to type can work on these platforms? Bit like a Military version of CAA? But we still have to take into consideration is the unions, working time directives, war roles for civvies. It might be more cost effective in the long run to recruit more and incentivise those already within the mob, rather than "you're time's up and its time to go". Lets be honest they're going out one door and back in another and it still all comes out of the same tax-payers pocket ie us.