Eggs now in different baskets. on Nostr: "The problem reflects the UK's low-wage economy, where workers are seen as a cost & ...

"The problem reflects the UK's low-wage economy, where workers are seen as a cost & not invested in."

It has been like this as long as I can remember.

Also blaming said workers for industrial disputes.

I remember reading a comment by a Japanese economist which opined that the UK labour relations situation in the 1970s was a product of bad management rather than "bolshie" trade unionists.

Workers were mostly reacting to being treated as a bothersome cost rather than a resource.