Efficiency will kill transport jobs-Robens
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FROM STEPHEN JOHNS WORKERS in the transport industry would pay for greater efficiency with redundancy-this was the message yesterday from Lord Rubens to. Britain't transport employers.
The ex-Coal Board chief said that new methods necessary to meet the fierce competition from Europe were "blurring' the dislinction between the docker, the railwayman and the lorry driver.
People employed in the industry would have to be kept down to a minimum to cut costs, he told a lunch organized by the Centre for Physical Distribution 'It must surely only be a matter of time before the boundaries disappear altogether. People must realize that they are no longer in road haulage, in the docks or the railways as such but in a business called transportation.' The changes, particularly in containerization, were leading to increasing militancy among Now we have the problem in the docks on containerization and this is leading up to a very nasty confrontation with the law."
But it was up to trade unionists, the government and employers to make the transition a smooth one.
No one liked to lose their job, he said, but jou can't avoid changes.
'You can't reject increased efficiency merely because it's going to mean social changes because this is the road to disaster.'