SKYCON ORDER

[Hels]

Great news from the Sunday Herald.

While there may be a bit of controversy about the availability of jobs and who is getting them we have to remember it was only 18-24 months ago that we were all paniking over Vestas leaving and the whole work-force loosing their jobs. Hopefully these staffing problems are simply "teething troubles" and a requirement to meet the needs of a full order book - a good complaint to have surely!

[antics]

But is it not unhealthy to have diregard for other people who have come here to earn a crust to support their families or to improve their economic prosperity. It seems to be fair enough if we (folks from these here shores) decide we want to go and work somewhere else. Whether its Australia, Spain, India or where ever. People are people, and for centuries people have migrated for economic reasons. Starting to blame the Polish workers or any other migrant workers for taking up opportunities, is the kind of unhealthy prejudice that can lead to the kind of scary stuff that Hitler prospered on.

[Nancie]

'I could be wrong, but I think the HR responsible, who employes people out there, is a local and not Danish.

(I don't think there's any Danish managers out there at all, which I don't understand)'


I also could be wrong but the man from Skykon who was at the CHORD open day in the Town Hall a couple of months ago was, I am sure, the HR man. His name was David Steel.

[Hels]

Have to agree with antics - the Polish workers are here to do a job, I hope there isn't any bad feeling against them. As you say - plenty of Brits head abraod for jobs.

[shipyard blues]

I`ll give Skycon or Weldcon 5 years in C/town,then theyll move on,its a logistic nightmare down here..and the Tories aint going to keep pumping grant money in to employ foreign labour.The same happened few years back at the Vestas nacelle asembly at M/hanish, local workers trained up Spanish workers for 6 months,then closed down the M/hanish nacelle assembly and moved it on to Spain.
So dont let these Danes fool you they are only poncing off the grant system.I hope i`m wrong

[maxmix]

I`ll give Skycon or Weldcon 5 years in C/town,then theyll move on, So dont let these Danes fool you they are only poncing off the grant system.I hope i`m wrong

Regarding the above.... 5 years if your lucky.... Then it will end up like the Call Centre and Ferry Terminal....

All a complete joke.... No long term prospects at all for the Kintyre area.....

Thank goodness the Tesco will still be here, the jobs will be gladly needed

maxmix

[bakbjerg]

I`ll give Skycon or Weldcon 5 years in C/town,then theyll move on,its a logistic nightmare down here..and the Tories aint going to keep pumping grant money in to employ foreign labour.The same happened few years back at the Vestas nacelle asembly at M/hanish, local workers trained up Spanish workers for 6 months,then closed down the M/hanish nacelle assembly and moved it on to Spain.
So dont let these Danes fool you they are only poncing off the grant system.I hope i`m wrong

Any company loosing money here, with or without grants, will move on.
The prospects of SKYCON making money here is all down to the quality and precision of the products going out of there. And what I hear at the moment is that neither Vestas nor Siemens are very happy customers. And if you can't please the customers, you won't survive very long, that’s how capitalism works, for good and bad.
If this has to work, I think changes are needed, and I would put money on that something is going to change within weeks rather than years.

[SYDNEY.B]

Changes do you mean shift changes ! like Alpha & Zulu ! maybe if the people in certain jobs knew what they were doing the place might run better and i dont mean the shop floor workers !!!!!!!!!

[bakbjerg]

..maybe if the people in certain jobs knew what they were doing the place might run better and i dont mean the shop floor workers !!!!!!!!!

Probably agree, I never understood how SKYCON could start out with the same management that has failed for Vestas. I think they should have sent their own managing people over here right from the beginning.

[bakbjerg]

.. I think changes are needed, and I would put money on that something is going to change within weeks rather than years.

Okay, it took a few weeks longer than I expected, but the bookie must return good odds on my met anyway
I think it's a step in the right direction, so let's hope it brings the sun out at the factory

[bakbjerg]

And today a big story here in Denmark is that the CEO of Skycon, Jesper Øhlenschlæger has been replaced. There's no official reason from the chairman of the board

[shipyard blues]

Maybe the CEO of skycon is getting replaced by a pole


Skycon wont be here in another 5 years,so get your mortgages paid off quick.The tories aint going to pump any more money into Machrihanish