Six jobs could go if review’s recommendations followed
Tuesday 11th January 2011, 2:29PM GMT.
JOBS at the Dairy could be in danger after an independent review said it was over-staffed.
The Policy Council-commissioned Dairy Industry Review suggested that £200,000 a year could be saved if six jobs were cut.
It also suggested wages were too high, with an average salary of £33,000 compared to the business model allowance of £29,000.
The Dairy employs 36 staff and Unite union regional officer Ron Le Cras (pictured) said the review’s recommendation would be a source of great concern.
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Surely there are civil servants who live at Custard Castle which could be made redundant that ‘oversee’ the dairy.
How much did the review cost? £200k by any chance?
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oh good god, more over sensationalised, scare mongering, tabloid style, whatif-perhaps-maybe ‘reporting’ from our local paper.
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If the Dairy is indeed overstaffed, the jobs must be cut, it is as simple as that
However, with our Ron now on the case, what are the chances of a strike – remember the airport firemen?
……or maybe just threats of a strike
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I’m afraid to say economics will eventually kill the dairy industry.. .
Here is a sum for you.
100 milking cow need about a 300 verges for land @ 10k will cost about 3 million..
an update milking parlour will costs about 500k plus farm to put it on.. Very easy 1.5 million investment.
Plus couple of tractor @ 50k each.. other machine to go on the tractor another 500k..
a couple to 3 staff to work for you.. that’s another 75k per year.
So that about a 5 million investment.
If you had 5m giving you a return of about 250k per year.. Just sitting in the bank..
Would you invest it all in a farm when most farms can hardly make ends meet?.
If you we’re a young farm wanting to start out.. Where would you get that kind of money when most first time buyers are having trouble borrowing 250k..
These large farms are just not sustainable in the long term… Finance and pure economics will kill off the majority of the local dairy industry’s off within the next 20 years as the older generation die off and the farms get sold… not horse owner, not gardeners and house owners…
Finance and pure economics will..
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Continuing on the subject of the review – in todays Press is an article about refrigerated deliveries. We used to have our milk delivered but when we discovered our doorstep deliveries were being made around 2′ish in the morning (meaning the milk was on the doorstep until at least 6.30, when we got up) we stopped. We had wondered why our milk wasn’t keeping well. In the summer when the temperature stays around 14c at night, this is the worst possible start to the delivered milk. Having refrigerated trucks would not have helped in this situation.
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Melc
Very sad, but I think a pretty accurate summary. Slightly different though for those who are already owning and operating farmland, so hopefully there’s a few years left in the industry.
The conundrum will come when those current farmers wish to sell. If farming by then is completely non-viable, who is going to want to buy that farming land, even at less than £10k per vergee, if that’s the only permitted use for the land ? Unless the States are able and willing to heavily subsidise the farming industry, there will come a time when that land is completely useless for agriculture or horticulture, which clearly has big ramifications when shaping what the island will look like in 20-30 years time.
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