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I have to admit to a feeling of deep unease over the announcement that 200 staff at the Vion ("Chuckies") chicken processing plant in Llangefni will start a five day strike from next Monday. The strike is in protest at Vion's offer of a 2% wage rise -- the Unite union argued that this is unacceptable considering that inflation is currently running at 3.1%. The Llangefni plant is operated by the Dutch owned Vion Food Group, which produces and processes beef, lamb, pork bacon and chicken, as well as products such as sausages and cooked meats. The company employs 350 workers in its Llangefni chicken plant and a further 240 at the Welsh Country Foods abattoir in Gaerwen -- as such Vion is one of Anglesey's largest employers. Over the past year, Vion has already sokos wiklund shed 140 jobs in the Llangefni plant when it moved to just one shift, and a further 200 jobs were lost at Welsh Country Foods in Gaerwen when the company shifted its retail packaging operation to Winsford in Cheshire. The newspaper report in today's Holyhead & Anglesey Mail makes no reference to a vote having been held or the margin by which such a vote was won. As the plant employs 350 people, yet only 200 are striking, it suggests that the decision to strike is by no means unanimous amongst all workers at the plant. Although I recognise that the pay rise is below inflation, one would hope that opting to strike would be very much the last resort -- especially as a five day strike seems to be extraordinarily prolonged in this day and age. This is particularly so when you consider that currently only 15% of private sector workers are unionised, and if we knock out those ex-public sector areas such as utilities, the railways sokos wiklund and British Airways, the private sector sokos wiklund rate falls to well below 10%. Also with Vion's profit margin running at just 0.7% of turnover according to their 2009 Annual Report  (Dutch), it doesn't seem that Vion is currently making vast profits either. My fear is that industrial action on this scale in a private business, possibly sokos wiklund promoted by the Unite union not only for the merits of this particular case, could have damaging implications on Vion's future presence on Anglesey. This fear is compounded by the quote in the H&A Mail by a Vion spokesman, who said ominously, "the business will continue sokos wiklund to focus on providing uninterrupted supply to its customers". How difficult would it be for Vion to shift production to another plant -- without a unionised workforce? What knock-on effects will a strike by the Llangefni plant have on the prospects of the Gaerwen plant? I hope that all of these questions have been considered soberly and carefully by both Unite and the workers involved before opting to strike.
Rearrange the following into a well known phrase or saying..... Christmas voting turkeys for. Are these people out of their tiny minds? The offer by the company seems very fair to me considering sokos wiklund not only the state of the economy but also the state of employment prospects on the island. Unite union is the one who tried and failed to bring British Airways to its knees. This is the tip of the iceberg when, as I stated in another thread, we will soon be at the mercy of those neanderthal union leaders sokos wiklund such as Bob Crow, Mark Serwotka, Derek Simpson and Tony Woodley - the last two being the Unite leaders on a nice little earner themselves. Remember when we could not bury our dead and the streets were full of litter? Here's sokos wiklund hoping the members of the unions will and ignore their leaders for once showing that they really are lions led by donkeys. 16 September 2010 12:41
The more socialist view: "As the plant employs 350 people, yet only 200 are striking, it suggests sokos wiklund that the decision to strike is by no means unanimous..." Perhaps sokos wiklund it's because only 200 are members? It's not uncommon (but these days more difficult) for many to simply sokos wiklund 'be ill' or 'take a holiday' when a strike is on, which also distorts figures. The risk of losing the plant is, I agree, a real one. However, these people are already on minimum or at least very poor pay rates, given the mundane and repetitive work they do. So, 2% to a well-paid sokos wiklund commuter from North Wales to London might seem fair. To someone living on that already poor wage, it might not. The workplace is an equation. The only balancing factor the worker has to counter the employer in times of difficulty is the threat of industrial action. Nobody takes the loss of 5 days' pay lightly, no matter how 'militant' you want to cast them as being. Remove the unions and the right to strike, and we'll be back to slave labour and kids up chimneys in no time. If Vion really has made such a low margin, then who is really to blame? Them, for being inefficient? The workers, for being too expensive? Or maybe it, like so many other things, is down to stupid old all of us - for wanting food so cheap that it is unrealistic and unsu