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82% Of People Think British Companies Should Be Legally Required To Consult
More than eight out of ten (82%) people believe that companies should be legally required to discuss their closure plans with their workforce, according to a MORI poll for the Transport and General Workers' Union, the UK's largest manufacturing union. The poll is released on the day T&G General Secretary Bill Morris attacked "the unacceptable face of corporate decision making we have seen from Vauxhall in Luton, Ford in Dagenham and Rover in Longbridge," where workers found out about factory closures from the media.
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Stop Daydreaming And Start Investing In The New Year
According to recent research undertaken by MORI for the Association of Investment Trust Companies ("AITC"), the British public are a nation of dreamers - they have a dream goal or a dream possession, a little or large luxury that would meet their dreams and aspirations. The only problem is - that's all they have!
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Christmas Poll
I am going to read out a number of statements, and for each one, I would like you to tell me whether you agree or disagree." I am looking forward to Christmas"...
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dot-commers Rely On "Dubious" Business Information
Dot.com workers are exchanging objectivity and accuracy for speed and convenience when it comes to online information on which to base business decisions.
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Political Polling In Britain - The History
Dr Henry Durant, the man who introduced opinion polling to Britain, once described it as "the stupidest of professions" - for who else is stupid enough to publish a prediction on Thursday morning that may be proved wrong on Thursday evening?
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Millennium Round-Up
New MORI research reveals that nearly three quarters of people in the UK believe Millennium Commission funded projects will benefit the area in which they live. Only 7% believe there will be no benefit. The research comes at the end of a momentous year of work by the Millennium Commission and its partners and which has seen both the culmination of six years of work, and with a wide range of exciting initiatives still to come.