The steel industry is extremely important to a country. No one has ever said that it is not important, not to mention that Britain is the initiator of the industrial revolution, and has a deeper understanding of this matter.

The British steel industry has a long history of development, is the birthplace of the modern steel industry, and has long been the global steel center. All of this is inseparable from two revolutionary technological changes in the steel field.

In fact, when the oil crisis broke out, the UK formulated a ten-year development plan to revitalize the British steel industry, and allocated three billion pounds to transform the British steel industry, which uses large-scale outdated equipment and consists of many small-scale production plants. The company has been upgraded to a more compact enterprise with strong market competitiveness.

The strategy also proposes that British steel production be concentrated in five regions: South Wales, Sheffield, Scunthorpe, Teesside and Scotland.

It was also at that time that because of the outbreak of the oil crisis, some industries in the UK, which were called sunset industries decades later, began to make ends meet.

The quality of the iron ore in the UK is the same. It can be compared with the iron ore in a big country. Without the support of the country, it will definitely not be able to compete with other countries under normal circumstances.

The quality of iron ore in Australia is very good, but this distance? It is not as good as selling iron ore from the United States for the UK.

Australia's iron ore has greatly promoted the Kuching Iron and Steel Base in Malaya, and can be called the bread and butter of the entire East Malaysia industrial base.

In fact, Alan Wilson understands very well that British steel workers and British absenteeism wear a pair of trousers in this matter. Whether it is coal mines or steel, Britain's reliance on local resources will result in higher costs, which are different from similar products in other countries. be competitive.

But even so, the appropriation of 3 billion pounds has indeed played a big role. The current British Steel Company has second-to-none steel production equipment. The shortcoming is that the steel workers also have the habit of going on strike. This can be adjusted. Come here, just let these steel workers go.

Layoffs and privatization are still the only way to solve the problems of British Steel Corporation. From this point of view, the steel workers' strike is also the right time for Alan Wilson.

"Do you know that the privatization of the steel industry requires the passage of a bill." Mrs. Thatcher was very surprised after hearing this. Of course, she also hoped to privatize the steel company, but steel and coal are different from oil after all. There are quite a lot of workers, and her current approval rating is unstable.

"Then the privatization plan will be put on hold for the time being." Alan Wilson replied after two seconds of silence. He didn't care about the Prime Minister's impression. too slow.

Alan Wilson does not deny that only the rapid privatization of the Soviet Union can best reflect the strength of the strong. Who is the strong? The biggest powerhouse in Britain right now is of course Ms. Pamela Mountbatten.

But obviously, if you do this, the risk is indeed too great. The Soviet Union will be wiped out if you do this. The small arms and legs of the United Kingdom may not be much stronger than the Soviet Union. What if there is a big mess? This kind of thing is not afraid of ten thousand, just in case.

According to the privatization time of Mrs. Thatcher in history, it is not impossible to privatize all British industries in more than ten years, and it is even safer. It is that there may not be the sense of accomplishment of skyrocketing wealth.

The most important thing is that his wife is not in London at this time of year. The last time she was in London was because BP wanted to sell state-owned shares. She lived in London for a winter and fell ill.

The richest woman obviously knows to use history as a mirror, so she resumed the habit of running between Perth and London. Alan Wilson also wondered whether to ask two idlers in the family to come forward and do it for their mothers once.

In order to know himself and the enemy, Alan Wilson took advantage of the time when the strike was still brewing to study a seminar on the development of the British steel industry at the Institute of Metallurgical Engineering Technology, which is the superior unit of British Steel Corporation.

The Secretary-General of the Cabinet came in person, and naturally all the directors of the various departments of the institute attended. Thirteen first-level units and twenty-four sub-units, including research centers, environmental protection centers, energy-saving centers, water-saving centers, technology update centers, cleaning centers Supervisors including production centers etc. spoke enthusiastically.

Alan Wilson had an intuitive understanding of the British steel industry, and it was time for privatization. It is indeed a bit excessive for a British steel company to release nearly 40 units.

A large enterprise with 270,000 workers, this kind of organizational structure? While not entirely incomprehensible, it is more understandable why it is not profitable.

The people around Alan Wilson, the steel company thought they were officials from Whitehall, but in fact, these people from the British steel company didn't know that the few seemingly expert attendants were actually from the Mountbatten Steel Company, and they came here specially Those who visited the iron company of British Steel Corporation were evaluating the local steel industry.

"Sir, to be honest, in terms of the efficiency and profits of the British Steel Corporation, at least half of the workforce needs to be cut to turn the workers into 130,000, which is a normal scale for a steel giant. Judging by the current unsatisfactory steel production in the country, nearly Three hundred thousand steel workers is certainly not appropriate."

Leaving the factory area of ​​British Steel, several overseas people who have been following Alan Wilson to find out about British Steel immediately said, "If there is no layoff, the merger of this company by the group will only increase the burden on the group. I will explain it to the president."

"Well, you can explain it to the president. Because I explained it before you explained it." Although several salaried executives were not pleasant to speak, Alan Wilson forgave them. He is a business executive who takes money to do things. Isn't it normal to report to the boss? "It's a big project to lay off half of the staff."

Although I don't know much about the strike of British Steel, since from a professional point of view, it is necessary to lay off 130,000 employees to meet the healthy profitability standards of an industry giant. Alan Wilson estimated that Mrs. Thatcher should have done it historically.

Alan Wilson still knows the biggest strike of Mrs. Thatcher's tenure. It was the strike of coal workers. Mrs. Thatcher's suppression also caused bloodshed. From a humanitarian point of view, he hopes to avoid this confrontation that will expand its influence. Steel workers are easier to bully than mining workers.

If the success of suppressing the steel workers can be used to deter a larger absenteeism strike, this can be regarded as a victory to a certain extent.

However, you can't think too smooth sailing. If absenteeism ignores the deterrence, it is just that there was only one blood eucalyptus in the past, but now it has become two.

In Whitehall, preparations for energy supply and smooth traffic were clarified to prevent the recurrence of the winter of discontent. On the last day of the year, Alan Wilson came to Monroe after get off work.

Monroe was eating with her son, and when she opened the door, she was surprised and happy to see the man, "Why did you think of me today and didn't say a word."

"Come and see you." Alan Wilson reached out and stroked Monroe's short blonde hair. "I'm just suggesting. In fact, you don't need to dye your hair so frequently. It's not good for your hair."

At present, it can be said that almost all the ladies with the same status as their wives have already retired, and they don't need to always appear on the screen, and naturally they don't need to always do image management.

There is a large photo of Monroe stroking her pregnant belly in the bedroom. There is a danger of breaking news, but people like it, and Alan Wilson is embarrassed to say anything.

January 1st is the new year, and the supreme authority has already appeared in Qiuhua's home, "The steel workers are about to go on strike, so tell Sean not to run around."

The steel workers in the UK still know the general idea, and citizens have a day to celebrate the New Year. On the morning of January 2, the steel workers' strike officially started.

Steel workers in South Wales, Sheffield, Scunthorpe, Teesside and Scotland took to the streets. At this time, they may recall the glorious history of Callahan being ousted by the Winter of Discontent. Shouting slogans.

Alan Wilson was having a meeting with the head of the police~lightnovelpub.net~ and then went to No. 10 Downing Street to inform the Prime Minister of the preparations this time, "To be honest, the steel company has been shut down for a year. The backlog of steel in Asia is enough to meet the demand for steel in the UK. Before that, we have sent people to control the coal reserves of steel companies to prevent them from being occupied by workers."

"Since the strike started in winter, winter can have an impact on a wider range of citizens, but since we have already prepared, we can also direct this negative impact to only affect the families of workers. I want to see, is it right? These workers will not freeze to death."

"Sir, you have indeed done everything you can." When Mrs. Thatcher learned that the strike had begun, it was impossible not to be nervous, but seeing this man appear, she breathed a sigh of relief for no reason.

"I will definitely give you firm support behind you." Alan Wilson made a solemn promise, but this kind of promise sounds weird.

Since the traffic paralysis can cause harm to the affected citizens and lead to a decline in the government's support rate, it can also be used by the government in turn. Alan Wilson, who has already used MI5 to figure out the energy problem in the steel workers' residential area, put The combat plan formulated by the Permanent Undersecretary of the Ministry of Defense, Makins, was transferred to Scotland Yard, ordering Scotland Yard to command the national police force to ensure that materials, especially energy, could not flow into the residential areas of steel workers.

"Cutting off the living supplies of the workers and their families will be a key step in dismantling the strike under the winter. We must pay attention to guiding public opinion, and we must explain this de facto blockade as private owners who are afraid of risks and are unwilling to be strikers. At the macro level, it is necessary to emphasize that the steel workers’ strike is destroying the British steel industry, and they are traitors in the name of patriotism.”