The polski's cheap labour means more job losses for UK workers..

[71-bda]

The company that ‘won’ or undercut the British Passport printing company’s bid to keep the printing of our passport in the UK  has only managed to bid so low because it uses cheap Polish labour !! you could not make it up !! My mates transport company was forced out of business due to a start-up Polish company undercutting his rates by more than 50% because it used casual Polish drivers who wanted to get home (back to Poland or to mainland europe)or bring stuff back to the UK in the truck they used to export stuff in in the first place, he lost a long standing major contract with Airbus. two other mates, a carpenter and a plumber are now earning half what they used to because they have to compete with cheap foreign labour that shares a 3 bed house with up to 9 people, so their overheads are practically zilch, no wonder they can work for £50 a day. ( and sometimes less)The poor British worker has a mortgage, a family and bills and realistically needs  twice what the Poles etc charge.  When is someone in the Government going to stand up and say ‘enough is enough’?  lets look after ourselves  for a change. oh, and lets print our OWN passport !! its national security too! It may not affect folk living out in the sticks,as you never see a foreigner, but around London , its cut throat. Mondays rant over.

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[71-bda]

Did cheap labour at a Polish factory seal the deal?

This is the Polish factory that could make Britain’s post-Brexit blue passports.

It is owned by Gemalto, the Franco-Dutch company in line to be awarded the contract.

A former worker at the plant, in the northern town of Tczew, said they suspect the firm might want to use the facility because Polish wages are up to two-thirds lower than in Britain.

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This is the Polish factory owned by Gemalto that could make Britain’s post-Brexit blue passports
It could explain why Gemalto was able to underbid British company De La Rue, which currently makes the burgundy UK passports.

How officials ignored rules
Officials gave Gemalto the passport deal despite rules allowing the value to the local economy to be considered when awarding contracts, it emerged yesterday.

The Tories revamped guidance last year to give British industries a better chance of landing bumper public deals.

It followed concerns that other countries had used public purchasing to support their own industries.

In June last year, Business Secretary Greg Clark said: ‘We have already changed the procurement guidance so that local value can be taken into account.’

Whitehall sources said benefits to the UK were considered in the passport scoring process as part of the social value criteria. It is understood Gemalto exceeded all Home Office requirements relating to this.

In 2010 Gemalto opened a new production line in Tczew producing the electronic technology that goes into modern passports. The firm said the new investment was to meet ‘increasing market demand both in the region and the rest of the world’, including ‘national printing houses in various countries’.

This suggests part or all of the new British passports could be produced at the Tczew facility – although Home Office sources say the personal information page of passports, containing a picture, name and date of birth, will be printed in the UK.

Speaking to the Daily Mail on condition of anonymity, a former Gemalto employee said office staff and skilled workers earn a gross salary of between £1,032 and £2,064 a month, with those doing manual work on roughly £412 a month net. In January the average Polish monthly minimum wage was £441, compared with £1,232 in the UK.

The source said many of the manual workers had contracts through agencies – and as a result are easier to sack.

A company spokesman had not responded to question from the Mail by last night.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5538073/Sign-petition-new-blue-passports-Britain.html#ixzz5ArvFB6aJ
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No nothing.

No Mods. No rockers. Just a chunky knob, thats now been replaced by an RS knob innit.

No tackiness.

Std as Ford intended, but with a space saver wheel and jack and nuts and wheel brace. oh.. and flaps, a man has got to have flaps.

Innit?

 

[v8griff]

It’s both shocking and disgusting. The Tories claim to be only following EU protocol, however, why didn’t the French follow the same rules when tendering for their passport contract. De la Rue (the UK company) were banned from bidding and a French company won the contract. No surprises there then. This is a £500 million contract FFS.

Why award the contract purely in price? In any other type of industry or market, price should be considered as part of the assessment criteria, but quality, track history, capability, culture and risk control are all (if not more) important that cost.

And what is this crap about saving the UK tax payer £120,000,000? I’ve never seen an explanation or breakdown of how that is quantified.

Don’t worry, it’s only 100 or so UK jobs which are potentially at risk. What is more, it’s Gateshead and who in Westminster gives a stuff about northern jobs.

[RS77]

To my mind this is simple – the British follow the rules around any directive that comes out of Brussels. Most other EU states are more selective. This is partly why the situations you describe above keep happening.

[rampant]

I propose an alternative.

Let the company keep the contract. at a FIXED price.

Then when they start to deliver the goods to mainland UK, charge them a massive and inordinate customs charge to import the goods into the UK, a charge that is way more than the fixed contract price – and then, and this is the *REALLY IMPORTANT* bit – re-employ the original factory workers in Customs and Excise on a rate equivalent to their original pay at De La Rue, with instructions to check each passport individually delivered from overseas.

Job done.

Taxpayer wins and no job losses.

 

Fixed it for ya

Mark H

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