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Thursday, July 10, 2025

0-0-0 is a generous offer

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It is com­mon knowl­edge that Petrotrin is vast­ly over­staffed, some say as much as ten times what is re­quired to run an op­er­a­tion of its size. There­fore, the com­pa­ny is well with­in its rights to of­fer to ter­mi­nate "on­ly" 25 per cent of its staff. Af­ter some ne­go­ti­a­tion, they can re­duce it to 20 per cent.

In that sce­nario, and giv­en the dire fi­nan­cial straits in which the com­pa­ny finds it­self (the rea­sons are not rel­e­vant here), Petrotrin work­ers should be thank­ful for the rather gen­er­ous of­fer of 0-0-0.

They should be asked: would you rather lose your job or re­main em­ployed at your cur­rent high salary? I think many would be will­ing to take a ten per cent cut to re­tain their jobs.

If you doubt me, ask the ex-Arcelor­Mit­tal work­ers.

A CHARLES,

MOUNT HOPE


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