Author: Michael

On a visit to a Royal Air Force base, I met a military logistics driver, Jack. Jack joined young and received training in specialist defense logistics skills now in short supply. After his post was outsourced, Jack remained, with the reduced wages subsidized by his military pension. His son, eager to follow in his father’s footsteps, found the job financially untenable without that pension subsidy. Outsourcing was a false economy, generating a skills gap that is now becoming acute as Jack’s generation retires.

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