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Pastimes : Technology - Pandora's Box and Armageddon?
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To: Crabbe who started this subject9/23/2003 3:24:50 PM
From: Crabbe   of 12
 
Another Article on Job Export in England

Thursday August 28, 03:42 PM

Union blasts Norwich Union jobs export comments

London, August 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Britain's biggest finance sector union has slammed Norwich Union's Chief Executive for his comments that the insurance giant would off shore jobs to India unless the Government makes cuts in red tape.

Snowball admitted to the Norwich Evening News that "We are under pressure to get costs down and quality up and technology allows us to go to the areas where service is best and costs lowest."

The move comes after NU parent company, Aviva (LSE: AV.L - news) , announced that it was opening a call centre operation in Bangalore in India before announcing they were closing their Cheadle site and making hundreds compulsory redundancies across the UK.

Roger Lyons, Amicus Joint General Secretary, said:

"Business analysts and trade unions agree that hundreds of thousands of UK jobs are in danger of being exported out of the UK. Patrick Snowball's comments are further proof that Britain's big companies are teetering on the brink of a chasm of unemployment hitting the same communities who were worst effected by the collapse of manufacturing. He has done nothing to put the minds of his employees at ease.

"Trying to hold a gun to the Government's head is no way to engage in a debate as to how we manage the inevitable change that technology is brining to the world in which we must live and work. We are calling for an independent enquiry to study what the economy will look like in the future".
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