Cott Corporation Makes Cuts

Toronto, Canada – Rumours of coming cuts to  Cott Corp’s current employee roster, across the full spectrum of the troubled soft drink producers many divisions, were heard grinding the rumour mill in the employee locker room of the world’s largest producer of store-branded carbonated soft drinks for groceries and other retailers, mostly in the United States , Canada and Mexico.

This comes after Cott recently parted ways with former CEO Brent Willis, after the corporation was informed by Wall-Mart, its largest customer that it was going to loose some of its valuable shelf-space and merchandising support at the world’s number one retailer, and the recent appointment of Director David Gibbons to the empty post of CEO at the corporation.

Rumours floating around the corporations have employees doubting the new CEO and dreading any plans he might have for cutting costs at the corporation.

Nobody at the company could be contacted, despite repeated attempts, they are probably busy planning the demise of thousands of highly trained and valued employees, and may want to hold off on any announcement until  Thursday, when they have a scheduled meeting of the board.

In conclusion, Cott has been the talk of troubled waters lately, but they have been awful quiet about the whole affair, you’d think they would at least implement a policy of commenting to try to alleviate the current stress being experienced by many of their worried employees, but then maybe they don’t expect to have to deal with many of these employees soon.

Emcon Technologies Makes Cuts

Chennai, India – India’s automotive workers are about to get additional employment options.  Today, automotive components manufacturer Emcon Technologies India, announced plans to build a plant in Singur, West Bengal, to manufacture exhaust systems for Nano, the low cost car from Tata Motors, in partnership with Anand Automotive Systems of India.

Turning the rumour mill as rumours that the growing firm as plans to put even more workers to work, by opening additional plants at Pune and other sites which weren’t named.

The plant at Singur is in the planning stages Emcon officials said when contacted for comment, they did confirm rumours of the Pune facility, but would not give specifics about any other planned plants in the works in India’s growing automotive sector.

In conclusion, all the big and small manufacturers of parts for the automotive industry and the car makers themselves are surely making plans to unveil new, Earth-friendly, car models by 2010, Mother
Earth would be proud, if it wasn’t for the previous 2000 years of human progress.

MultiTask on the Job

Dateline April, 2008

Kolkata, India – Many Canadian companies, especially in British Columbia where I live, faced with rapid reduction of manpower in the highly-trained workers required to provide their customers with the level of services or products expected.  Have in recent years, gone to first an independent attitude by starting small businesses or franchises and then a new concept for many of then and certainly a new concept for an industry like coal mining, an idea called the multi-job concept.

Now, Western Coalfields Ltd, a coal India subsidiary, is planning to implement this new idea of employees, trained and completing, more than one job on the job site, is taking hold in a few of the minds of India’s executives worried about where they will get the workers they need to keep production at current levels and even increase it in the future.

To date, an explosives-carrier’s job required him only to transport explosives, the rest of the time he just waits.  Now, he can be trained for additional tasks related to carrying explosives.

WCL officials contacted said that workers who multi-job could be paid higher wages and the company needed to head in this direction if they were to meet production levels in the future.

In conclusion, technical trained employees are always hard to find in any industry that relies upon skilled workers to complete jobs that are essential to an industries success.  Many companies around the world, not just India, will be watching companies that are heading down this road to see if the benefits are there to allow all industries to move to this form of employment.  If it allows workers to become even more valuable to the companies they work for and get paid accordingly then its a good thing, I guess, but will it take jobs away from individuals who might not get jobs accept for the labour intensive India labour market.