Originally Posted by
animallittle3
The company have experienced a down turn in sales and five good people are leaving the business , in other words redundency .
We've removed ourselves from plans to work a shift system that covered 7 days / 24 ,hours full time and there are no plans to go to this system for the xmas peak as we have done since anyone can ever remember .
When I enquired at a recent meeting with management about lowering our costs through procurement I was told this is extremely difficult because we adopt a robust ethical code with suppliers and outside the EU nobody can meet them , or if they do they can't supply the brand names we require .
At 56 years of age on very favourable terms this is most worrying at a company I find a joy to work for .
It's perhaps a good idea as a Labour Leader to listen to the membership as they have the capacity to elect you and get rid of you as well as drive policy .
I'm not in a party who has to worry about an election , that's more a concern for the government who are split and don't hold a majority on their own .