Comments on: Gate Gourmet workers split Labour party

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By: Sunny

Sunny — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 02:14:47 +0000

Well, the fact that they had a monpoly position, yet still failed to make money, despite not having had big changes happened, demonstrates mgmt incompetency.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 15:13:15 +0000

What aspect of the management of the firm was incompetent? Obviously you assume not employing too many people….

By: Sunny

Sunny — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 14:15:26 +0000

Gate Gourmet had been negotiating with the union for a while to cut jobs. The company, despite having a monopoly over BA catering, kept making a loss due to management incompetence.

The move to bring in casual workers was a deliberate attempt at provoking a strike so they could be fired, and as the Mirror expose shows, had been planned for a while. They suddenly brought in new workers, non-unionised ones, and told a few people not to bother coming back. That led to a general strike of around 700 workers.

Then the company instantly fired them (using a megaphone) and sent letters the same day to most of the Asian staff (even those who were on holiday or off ill on the day of the strike) saying that they were being laid-off for participating in the illegal strike.

That led to support action from the BA staff.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 14:08:24 +0000

Thanks – though I am still a bit confused.
The GG workers came out because the firm hired an additional number of (casual) workers “without telling the union” – is that it? Were the existing 670 jobs at risk at all?

By: Sunny

Sunny — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 13:34:23 +0000

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By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 13:13:49 +0000

Am I the only person who feels he doesn’t know the full story on GG? I have to say I am not minded to take TGWU version at face value…

NB “first serious policy defeat” = means nothing with respect to actual government policy…