Action on Comart Quality and Personnel concerns as public transport is disrupted over the GCHQ dispute and the Fleet Street Unions halt the presses to stop newspaper publishing
Up on time and to the office to cancel arrangements for the meeting with UKITO planned for later today. A credit control meeting to last most of the morning within which re-accepted my new strategies and policies on the subject and reviewed all difficult accounts to good effect. A sandwich lunch and following that meeting with Carlton Lowe and Peter King, principally on personnel subjects. Then to sign job offers and a range of correspondence before walking around the factory and checking up on things. Problems today on the packing front as my new quality ruling is difficult to implement without a £1000 write-off and considerable disruption.
I write personally to a poor assembly operative today who is still thinking of leaving the company, unwisely in my view, and she is now having to cope with a letter from the Chairman! A milder day today but still colder than normal at the end of this chilly February. My head cold is clearing slowly but leaves me tired and short of breath and temper. News today of the industrial action to support the GCHQ unions. Public transport is disrupted and the Fleet Street Unions halted the presses and so there will be no national newspapers tomorrow. No action at Comart of course but if there had been I would have accepted it. News also that some British Mercenaries have been released after 7 years in prison. The ducks have laid 7 eggs again.