In the Caravan Club magazine Dec 2008. The Director general Trevor Watson reported the Swift group and Bailey were both working a reduced working week.
Reduced working week
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I knew about Swift but not Bailey.
I hope this does not have an adverse effect on spare part supply.
I wonder how all the other caravan manufacturers are doing?
The Honda factory at Swindon is on an alleged two month shut down whilst all the surplus cars are sold. The workforce will continue to receive their basic salaries but no bonuses or overtime. Better than nothing I suppose.
So are we still suffering from the credit crunch or are we in recession??
This play on words pi$$e$ me off! Of course it's a bad time and us tax payers are paying for all the fat cat bankers errors, the Government cockups and those beautiful gilt edge pensions of our so overworked civil service.
Cheers
Alan
I hope this does not have an adverse effect on spare part supply.
I wonder how all the other caravan manufacturers are doing?
The Honda factory at Swindon is on an alleged two month shut down whilst all the surplus cars are sold. The workforce will continue to receive their basic salaries but no bonuses or overtime. Better than nothing I suppose.
So are we still suffering from the credit crunch or are we in recession??
This play on words pi$$e$ me off! Of course it's a bad time and us tax payers are paying for all the fat cat bankers errors, the Government cockups and those beautiful gilt edge pensions of our so overworked civil service.
Cheers
Alan
and we'll be paying for a few years to come,i think spares for the van will be low on the list,van what van
I agree and sympathise, but do bear in mind that an awful lot of people spent money they had borrowed on credit, as if there was no tomorrow. Well, tomorrow has arrived. I agree the banks sent out offers for credit cards like confetti, but it was people who signed up to them, without ever thinking 'what if?' Of course Gordon Brown has almost as much to answer for, as he did the same, but used our money. He also encouraged the Banks to stretch ever further, so he could collect all the loverly Corporation Tax. Now it is gone and guess who pays?
I also feel that the caravan industry as well as the motorhome industry was getting very overheated. It was impossible to keep selling as many vans and outfits as they were doing, so the retrenchment is pretty much inevitable. Yes, it will hurt mmany people, but we have been here before and survived. Spares will be fine but may be harder to get as staff are reduced in those departments. Some maufacturers may go to the wall, as the one who makes my van did. OK, so I now have a van from a bust manufacturer. I was not planning to change it soon anyway, so trade in values do not affect me, and if I did decide to go for it, it is possible that desperate dealer may be willing to go at least halfway for a new sale.
The one thing I would like to see curtalied is the vast army of useless public sector workers that Brown has employed over the last decade. 700000 at the last count and not a single road sweeper, park gardener amongst thee lot of them. Pleanty of diversity advisers to assist unmarried mothers to stop smoking etc.
I also feel that the caravan industry as well as the motorhome industry was getting very overheated. It was impossible to keep selling as many vans and outfits as they were doing, so the retrenchment is pretty much inevitable. Yes, it will hurt mmany people, but we have been here before and survived. Spares will be fine but may be harder to get as staff are reduced in those departments. Some maufacturers may go to the wall, as the one who makes my van did. OK, so I now have a van from a bust manufacturer. I was not planning to change it soon anyway, so trade in values do not affect me, and if I did decide to go for it, it is possible that desperate dealer may be willing to go at least halfway for a new sale.
The one thing I would like to see curtalied is the vast army of useless public sector workers that Brown has employed over the last decade. 700000 at the last count and not a single road sweeper, park gardener amongst thee lot of them. Pleanty of diversity advisers to assist unmarried mothers to stop smoking etc.
At the end of the day all this is down to the greedy banks. And there still giving themselfs great bonuses which is tax payers money to get them out of the poop thay got them selfs in in the first place.
Scotch Lad
Love your final paragraph.
Apparently there is a pool of 500 civil servants who have no work or jobs have run ougt who are still on the payroll. Why? To preserve their retire at 60 and collect gold pension. I as a tax payer am paying for those lazy b-----s.
Cheers
Alan
Love your final paragraph.
Apparently there is a pool of 500 civil servants who have no work or jobs have run ougt who are still on the payroll. Why? To preserve their retire at 60 and collect gold pension. I as a tax payer am paying for those lazy b-----s.
Cheers
Alan
Alan
I'm a civil servant. I am paid an average salary and have plenty of meaningful work to do (too much in fact!). You and others may go on about 'lazy civil servants' and 'gold plated pensions' but for your average civil servant who does deliver good services direct to the public and endures verbal abuse etc the salary is not great. The fact that the pension is good is about the only perk and a percentage payment is taken out of our salaries each month to pay for it. (Its not free). The public sector is vast yet you single out civil servants.
You may wish to target those civil servants who are on the 30, 40 or 50 thousand pounds a year (I'm not) but don't tarnish all of us with the same brush. I pay towards my pension, I work extremely hard, I'm worried about the security of my job and I contibute to society as should everyone.
I object to sweeping statements made by ignorant people like you which give this general impression about civil servants. It may be true for those civil servants in the city, but for ones like me (and that probably makes up a very large percentage) we are no different than your average person/worker/employee.
I will not be able to retire at 60 (so I don't know where you get your facts from) it will be at least 65 or older. The department I work in is shedding staff and closing offices with the threat of more. A colleague of mine has decided to apply for early retirement, is in his late 50's and will receive a pension of about
I'm a civil servant. I am paid an average salary and have plenty of meaningful work to do (too much in fact!). You and others may go on about 'lazy civil servants' and 'gold plated pensions' but for your average civil servant who does deliver good services direct to the public and endures verbal abuse etc the salary is not great. The fact that the pension is good is about the only perk and a percentage payment is taken out of our salaries each month to pay for it. (Its not free). The public sector is vast yet you single out civil servants.
You may wish to target those civil servants who are on the 30, 40 or 50 thousand pounds a year (I'm not) but don't tarnish all of us with the same brush. I pay towards my pension, I work extremely hard, I'm worried about the security of my job and I contibute to society as should everyone.
I object to sweeping statements made by ignorant people like you which give this general impression about civil servants. It may be true for those civil servants in the city, but for ones like me (and that probably makes up a very large percentage) we are no different than your average person/worker/employee.
I will not be able to retire at 60 (so I don't know where you get your facts from) it will be at least 65 or older. The department I work in is shedding staff and closing offices with the threat of more. A colleague of mine has decided to apply for early retirement, is in his late 50's and will receive a pension of about
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