You can't have an energy policy that means you can only have a bath when the wind blows.
From Jim Ratcliffe
America's got quite reasonable tax rates from an employee point of view.
In America, if you are a landowner, you own the minerals vertically underneath your plot. So if there is shale, you get a share.
If it's hemorrhaging cash, you've got to do something about it. You can't live with your head in the sand.
I'm not sure we could spell 'shale' in 2008.
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.
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.
It is not necessary, nor appropriate, to sow dissent and misrepresent employees or constantly to threaten industrial action.
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.
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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