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Bernie2
Re: should government make it law to be qualified plumber to do plumbing work for mon
Hmm!
All this 4 years hard work to justify being a Plumber is silly. If it goes on length of time and hard work in the game then 65 year olds should be on at least £1000 an hour.
Nearly every construction or engineering job requires hard work Plumbing is no exception.
And good or bad trades people seem to come from all the age groups.
And yes there are those who would like the game to be exclusive, but when you ask why, it's usually a case of trying to look after themselves or fear of competition. The thing is competition keeps you sharp and determine to be good at the game, so you can attract business.
All this makes keeping gas fitting sales exclusive only to registered fitters silly as well, that is unless you can absorb the complete production run of many hundreds of thousands of fittings made each year by the likes of IMI, Yorkshire and the likes.
What do you do with their production workers if they can not sell those goods on the open market, fire them?
It is already against the law for unregistered people to do gas work for cash. That is enough. It is also against the law to installe a dangerous system. Do so and find out what the HSE do?
So the law is already there.
I am not a Maggie Thatcher fan by any means but she said "Easy profit is bad for companies!" and that was from a Tory. What she meant by that, is that companies become lazy and don't look for faster, more economical and efficient ways to do things, so when competition does occur they can't match the other company's on cost so go out of business.
Unfortunately the Japanese did that to the Brit motorcycle industry in the sixties and the low pay countries have been doing it to the UK for many years. We simply do not invest enough in our people, we can not afford to perhaps huddle and protect ourselves. We simply have to learn to compete.
Lets be honest, the Polish Plumbers were good enough to take loads of work off the Brits, perhaps basically on price, but they got it we did not. We have to meet that sort of challenge by being better at the job, more efficient and cost effective. If we don't somebody else will.
Hmm!
All this 4 years hard work to justify being a Plumber is silly. If it goes on length of time and hard work in the game then 65 year olds should be on at least £1000 an hour.
Nearly every construction or engineering job requires hard work Plumbing is no exception.
And good or bad trades people seem to come from all the age groups.
And yes there are those who would like the game to be exclusive, but when you ask why, it's usually a case of trying to look after themselves or fear of competition. The thing is competition keeps you sharp and determine to be good at the game, so you can attract business.
All this makes keeping gas fitting sales exclusive only to registered fitters silly as well, that is unless you can absorb the complete production run of many hundreds of thousands of fittings made each year by the likes of IMI, Yorkshire and the likes.
What do you do with their production workers if they can not sell those goods on the open market, fire them?
It is already against the law for unregistered people to do gas work for cash. That is enough. It is also against the law to installe a dangerous system. Do so and find out what the HSE do?
So the law is already there.
I am not a Maggie Thatcher fan by any means but she said "Easy profit is bad for companies!" and that was from a Tory. What she meant by that, is that companies become lazy and don't look for faster, more economical and efficient ways to do things, so when competition does occur they can't match the other company's on cost so go out of business.
Unfortunately the Japanese did that to the Brit motorcycle industry in the sixties and the low pay countries have been doing it to the UK for many years. We simply do not invest enough in our people, we can not afford to perhaps huddle and protect ourselves. We simply have to learn to compete.
Lets be honest, the Polish Plumbers were good enough to take loads of work off the Brits, perhaps basically on price, but they got it we did not. We have to meet that sort of challenge by being better at the job, more efficient and cost effective. If we don't somebody else will.
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