13-04-2022, 09:16 AM
IIRC the main tenet of the Tory party 1979 election campaign was to “Stop being a manufacturing economy and become a service economy”( @M Thatcher)
In doing so the Industrial Training Board was gradually dismantled and we stopped training apprenticeships leaving the country with fewer people “to bang in the nails”.
This was clearly evinced in the late 1990s when I started visiting sites to find that many of the plumbers were Russian and the joiners were Polish.There were very few young British craftsmen and I ascribed this to the loss of a half generation of new craftsmen coming forward to replace those retiring.
I’m pleased to see that at last Amazon has met their comeupance and are likely to have to accept that their exploitative labour practices are being contested by union organisation.
In doing so the Industrial Training Board was gradually dismantled and we stopped training apprenticeships leaving the country with fewer people “to bang in the nails”.
This was clearly evinced in the late 1990s when I started visiting sites to find that many of the plumbers were Russian and the joiners were Polish.There were very few young British craftsmen and I ascribed this to the loss of a half generation of new craftsmen coming forward to replace those retiring.
I’m pleased to see that at last Amazon has met their comeupance and are likely to have to accept that their exploitative labour practices are being contested by union organisation.