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Hubble: Are they fit?
Hopkins: Hubble please!
Hubble: Just a joke.
Hopkins: They threatened to walk out yesterday, that's not a joke.
- I'll have to lay off five thousand men
- if I don't get a
continuous supply of Cortina seats.
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Monty: We can park the in the grievance procedure. Connie was instrumental in setting up the grievance procedure, so she ain't gonna argue against. We can do what we like then? they're under our thumbs. Hubble: Ooh, Mucky.
Hopkins: Hubble! that remark is not worthy of a Personnel Director. Hubble: Sorry, just a joke. Monty: Your management, I'm union, but we're all men, and this is our world, the world of work. It's when we go home that we're in the dog house.
I hate going home.
{all me drop their heads)
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Monty: You know Connie Riley, shop steward, River Plant. This is Rita O'Grady, er..machinist. Rita this is Gregory Hubble Personnel Director, Ron Macer, Production Manager and Jeremy Hopkins, Managing Director. For Dagenham.
Rita: Oh! Never me you before. Hello. Sorry. I'll shut up now.
The NUVB executive support the job evaluation exercise.
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Rita: Hang on! I ain't working on a grade B for three months. We're skilled worker. Hopkins: This is to be discussed in September. Rita: You have to take three tests before you get in the door. Ergo we must be skilled. Hopkins: Ergo? Rita: Yes bloody ergo. Hopkins: Do they take three tests?
Of course we test them.
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Rita: He tests us 'cause he can't afford to let just anybody loose on his expensive leatherette. And what about the girls at Dunton? they are C grade.
Hubble: There are only two girls at Dunton.
Rita What's that got to do with anything?
Now come on, you're..
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Rita: Don't you dare tell me my outrage is misplaced. It's the principle.
The girls at Dunton have to work under pressure.
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Rita: I have to make three hundred pieces a day. You try working with that monkey on your back!
- Dunton is a Research and Development facility.
- There are no drawings.
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Rita: We ain't working from drawing neiver! Go through that shed, you won't find a single template. Monty: Rita!
Rita: Don't you Rita me Monty. Alright, so if we ain't skilled, yeah, you do the jobs, yeah. That's what you're saying innit? So what kind og needle would you use for leatherette? {Silance} Ballpoint or a crewel? {silence}
Look..
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Rita: What would you set the dog teeth on for real leather? Do you know what the dog teeth are? Alright. Last question. What kind of brush would you use to sweep the yard? Hubble: A yard brush? Rita: Correct, Well done. Mr Hubble, you could be a cleaner. Hopkins: Every job has been analysed across twenty eight characteristics. Rita: Twenty eight characteristic abd the sex of whoever does it.
£17 for a forty hour week is not..
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Rita: Don't insult me, alright? You know what we want. Are you gonna give us equal pay of not?
Hopkins: Equal pay!
This isn't about equal pay!
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Monty: Connie. Connie: Why isn't this about equal pay? Hopkins: This is not an equal pay issue. Rita: It wasn't but if is now. Connie: You've made it one. Hopkins: But the grievance procedure was your idea. Connie: 15 years ago and you've be abusing it ever since. Rita: Come on Connie, we're going. You can stuff your grievance procedure where the sun don't shine. Good to meet you. A cup of tea would have been nice, but I guess that's skilled work.
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