2,300 jobs go as car plant closes

[spitfire]

https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/coventry_warwickshire/4919312.stm

[Itchy]

and with the lack of a general election close by nothing will be done by the government to save it.

[Spiral]

Blows, i read in another article that even the french won't be safe as european car manufacturers exploit the cheap labour available in the east.

At the end of the day we buy the cars so we should make them.

I wonder how well them companys profits would look if there sales were limited to the czech republic/ slovakia and the rest of them eastern countrys that they are now flocking to.
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[Itchy]

But the thing is consumers are suckers for a bargain , if something costs £50 which used to cost £100 they'll not question where it was made from most of the time and buy it.

Its whats keeping inflation so low, everything bearing the label Made in China or someother cheapo labour country.

[plugger147]

Well if it was a british car maker in france then the french would all boycott it (remember beef),people here(in this country) are to fickle to go along with anything like that and will all say it's sad but nobody will do bugger all about it unless it affects them directly.
It's exactly why MG/rover went down the pan because people here don't give a shit about the people who live in there country and all bought shitty french cars instead, the only reason triumph are still going is because the yanks like them.

I'd like to see all the workers there walk out tomorrow and fuck the company but then they'd all lose out on redundancy pay, looks like they're fucked and left to rely on the government.
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[Itchy]

rely on the government? , don;t you remember what Maggie Hodge said when Rover went down the pan? , oh they can work at Tescos.

which still isn't a solution as theres a wage disparity as well you know if the pre-election bribe cost 25 million to pay off 6000 rover workers

= £4166. / month / worker

Compared to say stacking super market shelves which pays about £5.05 and hour.


and NL aren;t going to give a flying fuc* cus theres no general election coming up and their noses are deep into the trough.

[plugger147]

[Itchy]

sorry I didn't realise your point and took it the wrong way.

[colin1]

englands 'flexible' labour laws means its easy to hire and fire people so we have lower unemployment than france but with something like this factory closure, it means its less hassle to fire english workers than it is to fire french workers

the problem with 'flexible' labour laws is lots of people have shitty jobs with no security where employers dont value them or develop them as they can just get rid of them for someone else easily.

so in france the people who are in work have career type jobs with job security
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[Itchy]

sounds pretty much like my career so far , that you get hired for long term job that doesn't really exist , to fill a temp role , the second you finish the work you have been drafted into do , you are told to sling yer hook.
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[plugger147]

[spitfire]

Mrs Spitfire has a Citroen, I was thinking about torching it....mind you I was thinking about doing that before they closed the car plant in Coventry

[Itchy]

[Itchy]

[m99dws]

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[zaknafien]

[Itchy]

yeah but voting for them 3 times in a row probably encourages them,

in fact if elections cost 500 mil a time and NLs own watchdog says they waste 23bn a year tories say 40bn , some other think tank says 85bn , maybe we should have elections on a yearly basis.
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[Itchy]