http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/500-staff-face-axe-as-religious-book-shops-up-for-sale-1.989358

Just wondered if this had been flagged up anywhere?

UCB2GO has recently been closely monitoring the activity of its main supplier ‘STL’, which has made several trade announcements over the last two months and which last week put itself up for sale due to trading difficulties.

So that we can ensure that no UCB2GO customer is disappointed with unfulfilled Christmas & New Year orders we have taken the decision to suspend operations at UCB2GO for a period of three months as from the 23rd November 2009. However we are confident that our supplier will ultimately find a way forward and we continue to pray for the staff and management of STL during this difficult time.

If you have recently placed an order, you should receive that order without any issue. If an item you ordered was out of stock and you paid by cheque you will be refunded for the value of the item in the next week alternatively if you paid by credit card your card will not be debited for items unsupplied. We are sorry for any inconvenience this will cause you over Christmas, we wanted to ensure no one was caught out potentially not receiving an order they placed in time for the festive season.

The fact- or certainly my opinion is- is that ‘skilled’ and ‘forward-looking’ people HAVE been working very hard at STL in previous years. And it seems to me that they are continuing to work, trying to resolve this situation. It would have been far easier for the ‘top brass’ at STL to put the whole thing into administration. So I salute their efforts- which will be very considerable- to try & sell the business as a going concern, albeit in a number of parts.

My hope & prayer is that, whatever emerges from this current situation, that as many as possible of those currently working at IBS-STL will continue to keep their employment. May God go with them as they walk this difficult path.

I have heard of far too many stories of bad management and bullying being a common practice at many self-professed ‘Christian’ organisations and I pray that leaders will look at the example at STL and respond to the call to change.

I’m reminded of what it says in Colossians 3 v17 ‘And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him’.

So please… let us run our companies with honesty and integrity as we deal with each other and members of our staff who are looking at us to lead them like Jesus would. And let us equip ourselves with forward-thinking people and put them in positions to prevent these devastating consequences from re-occurring and employ skilled people who can help us to lead our teams in a way that glorifies God.