Sainsbury’s finally show they don’t care about customer service only profit

This is the first of what (we predict) will become a steady stream of reports stating that benefits of employing immigrant workers in preference to the indigenous UK population.

Let’s examine the “flexibility” of the workers discussed in the article below.

1. Many immigrant workers come from countries where working conditions are so draconian they will accept any “terms and conditions” of employment companies like Sainsbury’s offer them without question.
   
   
2. Unsurprisingly most British people will always want a better deal and be less likely to allow themselves to be exploited!
   
   
3. Many immigrant workers are so happy to get a job they do not question the pay rates they are offered.
   
   
4. Interestingly Sainsbury’s said “more could be done to help migrant workers with advice on housing, banking, language and cross-cultural awareness” in other words they want UK tax payers to invest in the bits these people are not that good at!
   

So the fact is “Flexibility” means willingness not to open their mouths in protest or to ask for too much cash!!!

This is the thin end of the wedge Sainsburys are merely the first to start extolling the benefits of cheap imported labour now they have started the ball rolling we shall see the rest follow. This is the begining of the end for rights hard won by British people over hundreds of years, all so our semi monopoly food industry can increase their profts further.

See the article below

Article from The Daily Telegraph

Sainsbury's says 'immigrants better workers'

By Gary Cleland
Last Updated: 2:30am BST 09/10/2007

Immigrant workers have a "superior" work ethic to British employees, according to the supermarket giant Sainsbury's.

The company said it found immigrants to be more flexible and happier with their terms and conditions in employment.

It added that employing migrant workers in its stores often had a positive impact on the domestic staff. Sainsbury's was giving evidence to a House of Lords inquiry into the impact of immigration.


In a written submission, it said that it had greatly increased the number of immigrants it employed over the past two years and would likely continue to do so in future.

It said: "We have found migrant workers to have a very satisfactory work ethic, in many cases superior to domestic workers.

"We believe this results from their differing motivations — they want to learn English, or send money home to their families.

"They tend to be more willing to work flexibly, and be satisfied with their duties, terms and conditions and productivity requirements.

"In the long term, this could have a positive effect on their domestic colleagues. In some areas we have definitely seen a positive shift in culture where migrant workers have been introduced, which has led to a more diverse workforce fostering a more engaged group of workers."

The company, which employs 150,000 people, said it did not specifically recruit migrant workers and looked for the "highest calibre recruit" for any vacancy.

Sainsbury's said hiring migrant workers had forced it to be flexible in its working patterns and language barriers posed potential problems regarding health and safety. It said: "Where we have engaged skilled workers (HGV drivers from Poland, for example) we have had to be creative with their working patterns to allow them to return to their homeland regularly.

"This has encouraged us to consider the use of flexibility among the whole workforce."

It added: "Language barriers are a disadvantage, and migrants' understanding of health and safety requirements are naturally a major concern. Here again we have had to take a very flexible approach by adapting our communications and signage.

"Placing migrant workers among English-speaking colleagues and using fellow workers as interpreters has proven useful."

Sainsbury's said it had not met with trade union resistance to employing migrant workers and said, as the UK population decreased and aged, migrant worker use would likely increase.

The company said more could be done to help migrant workers with advice on housing, banking, language and cross-cultural awareness.

Prof David Blanchflower, who sits on the Bank of England's monetary policy committee, told the peers that immigration had increased "fear of unemployment" in the UK and that increased competition for jobs was likely to "have a downward impact on pay".

The Commission for Racial Equality said it was important to recognise that the economic impact of migrants was wider than often thought. It said: "On the surface, the economic contribution of a low-paid migrant working as a cleaner or security guard, for instance, may seem small, but it is important to recognise that their work may support that of more highly-paid workers."

The National Institute of Economic and Social Research said that 382,000 eastern Europeans had moved to the UK since their countries joined the European Union in 2004.

On Saturday figures from the House of Commons library disclosed that 54 per cent of new jobs in Britain were taken by foreigners between 1997 and 2006.

A survey also revealed that housebuyers believed that immigrants were one of the main causes for high house prices in Britain. More than one in five told propertyfinder.com that the best way to tackle soaring house prices would be to control immigration.