The abolition of the national Dock Labour Scheme presented with the oppurtunity radically to transform their cargo handling operations. Port employers have seized this oppurtunity and introduced radical changes to workforce compositions, their skills, work practices, and employee relations. The main factor behind these changes has been the desire of operation to minimize labour costs and maximize labour utilization in order to amintain traffic volume and competitive advantage. The short-term effect has been to improve productivity and profitablity(at least for the major port authorities), but it has also produced iinstablity in employee relations ans may in the long term prove counter productive>


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    Title :

    The British port transport industry part 2. Employment, working practices and productivity


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    Publication date :

    1993-01-01




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


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    Unknown




    Transport Infrastructure, Productivity and Employment

    Rietveld, P. / AKF; Institute of Local Government Studies | British Library Conference Proceedings | 1996