Santa accepts that the workforce has made sacrifices.
Compounding these problems is the fact that the workforce has become increasingly stratified.
He said attacking workers' pensions was a step too far and that the workforce felt betrayed.
He said that the workforce increase would bolster the experimental community-policing program.
"That it was poorly led, that the workforce had lost confidence in its leader.
The trust that the workforce has in management is being seriously undermined and it's time to restore the balance".
One source close to Fuld has said that the workforce extends to "a young guy from Lehman and two secretaries".
She argues that the workforce today includes a generation who are used to less hierarchical communication and very good at chat.
"Unless departments redesign the way they work, there is a risk that the workforce will increase again, once the urgency for cost reduction abates," says the report.
Under these circumstances, it is no surprise that the workforce are fed up and combative: their basic working conditions and underlying rights are under attack.
It is that the workforce is frequently at least as good a judge of the needs of their business as the management.
