British - Businessman | October 18, 1952 -
I think the U.K. would be perfectly successful as a standalone country, part of the European marketplace like Norway and Switzerland but without the expensive E.U. bureaucracy.
Jim Ratcliffe
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Unions do have a proper role in negotiating for employees and advising employees, but they have to engage with the employer.
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If it's hemorrhaging cash, you've got to do something about it. You can't live with your head in the sand.
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I'm not sure we could spell 'shale' in 2008.
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America's got quite reasonable tax rates from an employee point of view.
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Towards the end of 2005, Ineos acquired Innovene, the petrochemicals arm of BP, for $9 billion. It quadrupled the size of Ineos overnight and brought with it some of the world's largest industrial sites.
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Unions can play a valuable role in large organisations where it is difficult to talk to a thousand people. They can negotiate annual pay awards with management, represent grievance cases, and explain and advise on complicated changes in employment or pension law.
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It is not necessary, nor appropriate, to sow dissent and misrepresent employees or constantly to threaten industrial action.
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While unions did not play a part in my family life when I was being brought up, my early years were most certainly spent in a working-class community.
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What we want to see is a long term future for Grangemouth.
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I'm very cheerful about coming back to the U.K. We increasingly found ourselves gravitating towards London. There was so much going on for our business, and we had grown substantially here.
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Brussels has become inefficient and very bureaucratic, which makes it slow to do things. The concept of the United States of Europe will never work.
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