DON’T BLAME THE WORKERS!!!!

Lets not be silly about it, there are good workers and bad workers. Some people work hard whatever, some people have more skill, some more enthusiasm, some are better are getting on with the bosses, some are better at covering up their mistakes, some are better at bullshitting about how good they are. So what

There was an interesting snippet on the ICC forum recently about Communism giving the right to be unequal. Spot on, everybody works differently and contributes different skills

In this society, all workers are just workers in a system that keeps them trodden down and gives the managers and owners the money and the status. All workers work to survive and try to cope the best they can even if they annoy each other and cant get on. All workers are in the same situation vs society and that’s why we talk about class and class unity, irrespective of the differences and that’s why in a strike/dispute with the bosses, even at the most limited of levels, workers forget their differences and concentrate on the fight with management

Nowadays the state and employers cant and wont blame workers for errors and just sack them. That upsets the illusions of democracy and equality that capitalism uses to control us all today and to pretend its being fair to all.Manufacturing workers have been confronted by quality systems that demand extra commitment to the company, that demand extra contributions to improvements in the product and the manufacturing process, that demand contributions to their own exploitation.

The justification is the right of the customers to good products:

“We all like reliable products that are cheap to run and we all complain when they don’t, so workers help us out here, do a better job and well pay you a bit more and call you a colleague and not a production line worker!!!”

In the semi professional and clerical offices that sort of thing does not work in the same way. It appears that, unlike in manufacturing, the quality control and recording is open to too much interpretation. So what happens, how do they try to get more “responsibility” out of the workers???

It used to be guilt and that was bad enough “Striking nurses kill workers, striking teachers harm kids. Council workers bloat themselves on our money”. Such crap, and crap it is, can be hard to argue against and it does seems to have held workers back here in the UK. It seems to have been very effective means of stopping workers doing anything about pay reductions and redundancies.

Now it get worse. NOW COMES THE WEIGHT OF LAW TO BACK UP THE EXPLOITATION OF THESE WORKERS.

Nurses and doctors are now threatened with law if they don’t do the job according to how management says it should be done. Teachers get threatened with pay penalties, dismissal, retraining if the kids don’t learn what management wants them to learn!!

Quality systems that don’t work in these situations are now to be backed up by legal sanctions!! Do the job right or go to prison, its only fair on the patients. Improve your results or get a pay cut, its only fair on the patients.

Nevermind how the NHS services has been trimmed back, nevermind the cuts in the workforce, nevermind the continual system changes, nevermind the expansions of managers watching work and recording work being done, nevermind the cuts in training over the past decades, nevermind the attraction of cheaper workers from abroad ( trained abroad doesn’t mean less skilled workers – it means less production costs for workers here and destroys health care systems abroad), nevermind the overwhelming bureaucracy that these quality systems introduce into service industries, nevermind the reduction in the numbers of workers…………. blame the workers for what goes wrong.

'Nevermind about more students and more patients, nevermind about less time, nevermind about less workers and more paperwork – you can still do a better job than before, there are more managers around to make sure you do and now we can send you to prison if you don’t to more and do it better!!!'

Managers in the NHS and Teaching services are trained now to expect and indeed demand more work and better results from fewer workers. Continuous improvement into fantasy land is what's demanded now.

“Its never the system that’s wrong its you workers!!! Get on with it knuckle under!!!”

DON’T LET THE BOSSES GET AWAY WITH THIS.

NEVER NEVER NEVER LET THEM PERSUADE YOU THAT YOUR FELLOW WORKERS ARE TO BLAME FOR THE SYSTEM THAT DOES NOT LET YOU DO THE JOB PROPERLY.

SUPPORT ALL WORKERS AGAINST AN INHUMANE SYSTEM