ALBRIGHT AND WILSON’S “ABSOLUTE AND UTTER SCANDAL”
Without doubt things began to unravel for this abysmal employer in the 1990’s along with their ultimate demise. The number of incidents at Trinity Street and elsewhere during this decade made them a public menace and a threat to life in all of the communities which they unfortunately had premises.
But their workers also suffered, and unlike some who appear to have been coercively brainwashed into thinking they were working for a good employer that cared about their health, there were some brave souls who chose to fight and expose their corporate and managerial negligence.
One such example comes from the Friday 28th May 1993 Sandwell Evening Mail. I have chosen to redact the name of the employee, though if they want to get in touch with this blog, I would be very interested to talk to you, hoping that your silence was not bought.
The story tells how the chemical process worker at Trinity Street lost a leg and his foot on his other was “mangled” when he got caught in the blades of machinery. The accident had occurred some 11 years previous and the man had returned to work, but he had not received any compensation from Albright and Wilson!
The follow up story from the mail of 29th May 1993 reveals that he had received £258,000. Unfortunately, I would wager that much of this probably never reached him and reached his legal team instead. The judge identifies that the company knew that they were liable, yet had held out paying their worker until this ruling. What an absolute bunch of evil scum they really were. Quakers my arse!
