A Shit Way To Play

*Taken from AC Article on Beard

I’ve just had the news from a mate of mine (for the sake of this we’ll call him Captain Willy) that the BMW run Mini plant in Oxford just sacked him and 850 odd of his co-workers. Captain Willy and the others (unfortunately for them) were employed by an agency which means that a cull of this magnitude has next to no repercussions for BMW. As if to add insult to injury the company saw fit to deliver only an hours warning of the sackings; in fact making the entire shift work the duration and then pulling them into a meeting at the end of the day in order to be told by the union about their fate.

I say union in the loosest sense as I was under the impression that a union represented its members but in this case it seems they only represented their own interests claiming unbelievably that they had known about it for three weeks before but they were concerned for their own jobs. Heres a link to the whole meeting on You Tube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UwVRSGEI-w . So now 850 people in Oxford are seeking new employment in a time of recession i’m sure a little bit of warning would have been helpful.