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Shift Workers a Problem

4th November 1960
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UNLESS local transport authorities co-operated in providing buses for cotton's double-shift workers, they must expect their income to go down whan industry was forced to move away, said Mr. P. E. Blake, chief personnel officer for Fine Spinners and Doublers, Ltd., last week. However, in the textile industry it seemed likely that the night shift would end at 10 p.m. instead of its present 10.30 p.m., so solving the difficulty. He was replying to questions at a meeting of the Oldham and Rochdale section of the Textile Institute, after delivering a paper on the social and educational problems of shift work.

Like the bus industry, textiles were bound up with shift work, he went on. Mr. Blake said shift work was necessary; of course there were problems but the advantages must outweigh them. The alternative to shift work was failure. The main difficulty was to persuade workers to accept change, rather than the actual shift work itself.

The inability of certain individuals to work on nightshifts, he continued, must no more be used as an argument against shift working than must the inability of certain individuals to work on day shifts be used to argue for the abandonment of day shifts. He emphasized that job security was the greatest advantage of shift work, yet it was one most frequently forgotten.

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Organisations: Textile Institute
People: P. E. Blake

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