Stop Deskilling: Liverpool Message of Solidarity

MESSAGE OF SOLIDARITY FROM UNITE LIVERPOOL 0538 BRANCH TO ELECTRICIANS PROTESTING AGAINST DESKILLING.

Unite Liverpool 0538 Branch offers full support and solidarity to the electricians who are protesting against deskilling.

If bosses get their way. 70% of work currently undertaken by skilled electricians will be carried out by ESOs (electrical service operators). Instead of a 4 to 5-year apprenticeship, there would only be a 3 to 5-week training programme. So instead of 10 qualified electricians being employed there will be 3 electricians and 7 ESOs, which would start a race to the bottom.

Workers protesting against this deskilling deserve our total support.

In solidarity,

Unite 0538 Branch

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