How the UK electronics industry lost its spark | Letters

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Letters: Blame for the fall of GEC rests with its boss, Arnold Weinstock, says Tim Webb. Plus letters on the collapse of a once-great British electronics sector from Roger Cooper, Michael Prior, Alan Burkitt-Gray and David Murray

Aditya Chakrabortty is basically correct in his analysis of the decline of Britain’s electronics industry and the central role played by Arnold Weinstock, head of GEC . Weinstock was indeed parsimonious; he paid poor salaries, engineers worked in portable buildings and redundancy payments were the lowest the law would allow. In my job as a trade union official, I found him inflexible and uncompromising.

 

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