Save Us From The Outsauce

151 workers in Abercarn, Caerphilly, as well as 28 in Newtown, Powys in Wales, where Reggae Reggae Sauce in made, will lose their jobs soon because the factories they work in want to move production to Poland. This means that a total of 179 people will be out of work when they close, and this is not including the 310 people who are also in the process of losing their jobs because of Burberry moving production from their factory in Treorchy to somewhere in China.

This has gotten me rather angry because I am from Wales and I don’t like the fact that businesses seem to be putting profit ahead of ethics. Now I know that they are businesses and that they have to make money, of course I mean Burberry’s shareholders probably wouldn’t be to happy if they announced that they were going to be a non-profit organisation from now on. I have no argument with the management for wanting to make money, it is how they are going about making money that I, and a lot of other people, have taken a dislike to, and when you look at the evidence it ‘s not hard to see why.

Burberry stated that the reason for moving production to China was because the factory in Treorchy was no longer “commercially viable”, even though they announced a 22% increase in profits earlier this year, and when you are selling polo shirts a £70 a pop, it is hard to believe that they can’t afford to keep production in Britain. It appears that the decision to move was one of greed and not corporate survival as Burberry would have us believe.

It would seem though that people have finally have enough of all this outsourcing with many celebrities, MP’s and members of the public voicing complaints about the closure of the Burberry factory, and now with closure on the cards for the two factories mentioned at the beginning of this article the businessman behind Reggae Reggae Sauce says that he will pull his business out if the jobs are outsourced to Poland.

And I say good for him, it’s nice to see that someone in the world of business has though about the plight of the workers who are made redundant by companies that wish to make more money.

I would also like to say to the people who run companies that outsource, or are thinking about outsourcing, if you want to make more money, try working harder, or even better try being happy with the millions and millions of pounds that you make and not attempting to make more at the expenses of hundreds of peoples lives.

Sorry if I am coming across all anti-corporate, but I believe that workers deserve more respect than they are getting from their employers. But I doubt there is anyway to stop it, people will continue to buy things no matter where they are made.

I mean you can find the words “Made In Taiwan” on so many products these days that it can actually be used for comic effect.