Cleveland Bridge

Piccadilly Day Tripper said:
Bad news for Cleveland Bridge today, and a big test for prominent local Conservatives to demonstrate capability rather than online content:

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Live updates as Darlington's Cleveland Bridge calls in administrators - jobs at risk

All the latest updates as one of Darlington's biggest employers calls in administrators
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All well and good, but you can't expect local politicians to be dealing with stuff like this when they've got opinions to offer on the England manager via Twitter, foreign holidays to defend, or Facebook posts about long forgotten Teesside landmarks to be made.

They're focused on the really impactful stuff.
 
Sad, but a trend that is unlikely to stop unless we pay our skilled workforce peanuts which won't happen and local governments place contracts with British manufacturers- time to level up Boris.
Once bridge builders to the world, using British Steel
 
Once the leading Engineers in the world the Industry has been abandoned by successive governments.
Brexit hasn't helped at all of course.
 
NYboro said:
... and I thought Brexit meant that the government were allowed to support British industry. 🤔
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I worked in Germany a decade ago in heavy Industry and the Steel Mill was going on a 3 day week in the run up to Xmas.
I said to the workers you must be gutted but they were over the moon.
Thyssen paid them for the 3 days they worked and the German Govt paid 80% of their wage for the 2 they didn't.
Directly against EU law and it's been going on for years, not just in Germany.
Only the UK complied with the rules and it's utterley decimated out Steel Industry.
 
zzzzz said:
I worked in Germany a decade ago in heavy Industry and the Steel Mill was going on a 3 day week in the run up to Xmas.
I said to the workers you must be gutted but they were over the moon.
Thyssen paid them for the 3 days they worked and the German Govt paid 80% of their wage for the 2 they didn't.
Directly against EU law and it's been going on for years, not just in Germany.
Only the UK complied with the rules and it's utterley decimated out Steel Industry.
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Tell me about it.
 
zzzzz said:
I worked in Germany a decade ago in heavy Industry and the Steel Mill was going on a 3 day week in the run up to Xmas.
I said to the workers you must be gutted but they were over the moon.
Thyssen paid them for the 3 days they worked and the German Govt paid 80% of their wage for the 2 they didn't.
Directly against EU law and it's been going on for years, not just in Germany.
Only the UK complied with the rules and it's utterley decimated out Steel Industry.
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The UK didn't just comply with EU law. Our Government (pick your colour) made up a rule and said that we couldn't support our industries (so they didn't have to spend money and possibly raise taxes) whereas the rest of Europe continued to support making things, rather than turning the economy into a support / financial services one.
 
zzzzz said:
I worked in Germany a decade ago in heavy Industry and the Steel Mill was going on a 3 day week in the run up to Xmas.
I said to the workers you must be gutted but they were over the moon.
Thyssen paid them for the 3 days they worked and the German Govt paid 80% of their wage for the 2 they didn't.
Directly against EU law and it's been going on for years, not just in Germany.
Only the UK complied with the rules and it's utterley decimated out Steel Industry.
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I think that is more to do with the German benefit system than paying wages. In Germany, when a person becomes unemployed they receive 80% of their wage. So if the German government deemed that they were unemployed for 2 days a week that is likely what happened. It doesn't matter what other members of the household earn either. The Germans take the view that a person is taxed as an individual therefore they receive benefits as an individual. People over 50 receive slightly more as the German government recognise that is much harder for people of that age to find work.
 
However its done it still massively subsidising Industry.
If Labour costs are reduced by 2/5 every time theres a slack period theres a huge advantage over competitors.
 
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