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What do think the biggest changes in our trade have been?
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<blockquote data-quote="Kurt" data-source="post: 458872" data-attributes="member: 27355"><p>In 1982 i was sent over to the Mid West Oklahoma to work on our sister plant . Well as a 19 year old i had no fixed ideas on how things should work . In the UK, we had a welder, fitter, electrician, tool fitter, etc etc. When i went to the states i saw the same man, repair a machine and he did all the jobs, including welding, to get the plant running again. I admit that this was OK for the vast majority of faults and his skills in any one field were not as high but their maintenance debt was tiny compared to ours and their downtime was no less.</p><p></p><p>It did rather stick in my mind and as our products were purchased by international companies who could buy competitor products from anywhere in the world is was pretty obvious our working practices , if continued , would result in the death of the company in the uk.</p><p></p><p>So by all means look to Unions to save the day, but who is going to buy our stuff, no customers = no business=no employees=no union</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kurt, post: 458872, member: 27355"] In 1982 i was sent over to the Mid West Oklahoma to work on our sister plant . Well as a 19 year old i had no fixed ideas on how things should work . In the UK, we had a welder, fitter, electrician, tool fitter, etc etc. When i went to the states i saw the same man, repair a machine and he did all the jobs, including welding, to get the plant running again. I admit that this was OK for the vast majority of faults and his skills in any one field were not as high but their maintenance debt was tiny compared to ours and their downtime was no less. It did rather stick in my mind and as our products were purchased by international companies who could buy competitor products from anywhere in the world is was pretty obvious our working practices , if continued , would result in the death of the company in the uk. So by all means look to Unions to save the day, but who is going to buy our stuff, no customers = no business=no employees=no union [/QUOTE]
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