Many workers had moved from areas across Wales with the promise of regular employment at the plant where I worked. Many like myself had trained over a period of years for what was meant to be a "job for life"! How wrong we were. How times were about to change. This was the beginning of the end of regular employment as it was known. There would be no long-service watch. No employment security. Like many others working in the industrial private sectors we were paying the price, as contracts and investments were being lost overseas, as strikes by National Companies crippled the order books.
Having never worked in any of the nationally owned industries I have never been on strike. However I do remember the 3 day week and the lost orders. This was the seventies and eighties as I knew it. Today in the twenty first century there are times when I believe that pensions investments should be ploughed back into our own industries. However we expect the best results possible from those that invest on our behalf. We turn a blind eye to the overseas "bowl of rice workers" that now have full harbours for their exports and full order books for their production lines and only full stomachs for their toil. Our core industries are slowly being lost and I don't think we could ask other countries if they could sell us some steel to make some tanks so that we could fight them. I think not. So we will leave our children with wealth, an education and assembling jobs for overseas companies. All this build on our pensions and the sell-out of our grandchildrens inheritance of the core industries that were passed down to us from our fathers and are the very foundation required to survive an economic collapse.Should we have kept those National Industries?Have we really got it right!!!!!
a blow to the poorer man.
The finest creation of all time this disruptive economy plan,
Psychologically breaking the united strengths,
Bringing the worlds meek to heel,
Soaring inflation the poorer mans fault,
Clever these supremes that deal,
Their heads can't see or part with tears,
Their addiction the gains that they fix,
As they wheel and deal in human flesh
Knowing they'll win all their tricks,
The poorer man has shown them the way,
United they've travelled so far,
The Worlds rich elite have combined in this feat,
The many once employed they now bar,
Holding their cash in their worlds they wait,
Their only wants the crave for more power,
The Unions knocked back thirty years and more,
As the dole queues grow by the hour,
The employee is a man with many a want,
The capitalist the man who can feed,
A Government a party that should understand,
That the unemployed man has one need,
To be useful and wanted,
A chance to work his only yearning,
Confused and illiterate to the capitalists life,
Rejected by the Tories not turning,
Brother they walk hand in hand,
Together they'll see us all dead,
Stifle these blues before it's too late,
If we're to die lets all go down red,
It's the Worlds International Economy War,
In this Hell we have something to savour,
If we're to sacrifice every bloody thing,
Lets all go as one, as Labour.
Whether you're in or wether you're out,
Play a part in your fate.
Now then not as a company,
As a Nation lets go to the gate!!
