Leaked memo sets out plan to replace workers with cheaper labour

[non sociopath skin]

Sounds like a grand Blairite wheeze. I'm sure Tony can find a place for the Gate Gourmet CEO on the "New Labour" payroll.

Airline Catering Firm's 'Bid to Provoke Staff'

The Skin

Leaked memo sets out plan to replace workers with cheaper labour

The catering firm at the centre of Heathrow airport's travel chaos had considered provoking strikes last year so staff could be replaced with cheaper labour, a leaked memo has revealed.

A secret internal briefing presented to bosses at Gate Gourmet, which provides catering for British Airways, reads: "Recruit, train and security check drivers.

“Announce intention to trade union, provoking unofficial industrial action from staff. Dismiss current workforce. Replace with new staff”

The draft document, prepared in 2004 and now obtained by the Daily Mirror, sets out a 15-week timetable for goading employees into striking so they could be replaced with lower-paid east European labour trained in secret.

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[wli]

1. nothing surprises me anymore

Except, that is, the fact this sort of shenanigan doesn't leak more often.

[julianer]

2. Yet it is illegal

for workers to show solidarity!

It's great living under a Labour government ain't it?

[Anarcho-Socialist]

3. How sickening

[LeftishBrit]

4. Disgusting!!!!

[Kipling]

5. Rich men with good vowels don't need to show respect.

It's only peasants.