Pay cut ... or we axe 800 jobs

doire_2

Councils better get used to it. Massive cuts will need to happen to sort the mess out.


http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/editor-s-picks-ignore/pay-cut-or-we-axe-800-jobs-1.1018994

Staff at the largest of Glasgow City Council’s hived-off companies have been told their hours and salaries must be drastically cut – or there will be as many as 800 redundancies.
Management at Cordia, which has almost 9,000 staff and provides services ranging from home care to corporate catering, have been meeting union leaders over how to deal with £6 million in cuts this financial year.
Cordia has been instructed by the council to make £3m in savings this year and will also receive £3m less for social care it delivered to thousands of elderly and infirm across Glasgow.
The firm has not disputed the figures.
The company, headed by £132,500-a-year entrepreneur Fergus Chambers, had initially wanted 120 co-ordinators, mostly females in charge of teams of up to 20 home helps, to volunteer for redundancy across the next two years.
It also wanted 200 home care staff to volunteer to go in the next 12 months. Just seven co-ordinators and 19 home care staff volunteered to leave.
As a result, management at first sought compulsory redundancies but then said staff could stay – with radically reduced pay and terms and conditions, and all co-ordinators being issued the same contracts as home helps.
Both options were rejected by unions, and Cordia is now seeking voluntary redundancies, early retirement or voluntary reduction in hours.
Alex McLuckie, of GMB, said: “Our real concern is Cordia is being strangled at birth, with the reduction in payments from the council leading to job losses and diminishing terms and conditions.”
A Cordia spokesman said: “The figures are not written in stone and are aimed at being the basis of an ongoing process that includes some members of staff being given the option of voluntary redundancy or redeployment.”

donaldtramp

It's already happened at my work. No choice. People just got sacked.

Doesn't apply in Council Worker land

lvader

About time.

Rochdale_Pioneers

They are being given what so many workers never get - a choice. Take the pay cut then look cor a better paid job if one is available.

amcluesent

By jings! Help ma boab! Crivens! Another 800 on IB. Hoots!

Old_Slaphead

Is this the same council that last year decided that it's minimum wage would be £7ph ?

http://www.personneltoday.com/articles/2009/03/09/49739/glasgow-city-council-sets-its-own-minimum-wage.html

donaldtramp

Think the daily mash link in my last post explains it pretty well

A LARGE, terrifying dragon is threatening the magical kingdom of massive pensions where no-one ever gets fired.

'Let us cheer ourselves with the Tale of the Massive Golden Pension'

The fearful citizens of Council Worker Fantasy Land say they will surely be burned to a crisp by the fire breathing monster unless they receive urgent anti-dragon money from the people of the Real World that exists beyond the buttercup meadow and the four star country house hotel where the magical training days are held.

Since 1997 Council Worker Fantasy Land has been the happiest place in the world, where grade two fairytale princesses and thousands of badly educated left-wing elves live happily alongside magical dwarves who are not allowed to move your wheelie bin more than 38.3cm........

Exocet

I may be wrong but if you are knocking council staff and celebrating not sure this is any help. The company Cordia sounds like a private company to me, so the council cutbacks are in effect being passed on to the private sector. Just thought you'd like to know.

Old_Slaphead

Exocet wrote: »

I may be wrong but if you are knocking council staff and celebrating not sure this is any help. The company Cordia sounds like a private company to me, so the council cutbacks are in effect being passed on to the private sector. Just thought you'd like to know.

It's a spin off company. Most of Board Members are Councillors or ex-GCC staff.

Exocet

Old_Slaphead wrote: »

It's a spin off company. Most of Board Members are Councillors or ex-GCC staff.

Ah, so they are really council workers in disguise then? The cunning so and so's. Good job you found out about that, otherwise I might have had some sympathy for them.

bodgerx

Exocet wrote: »

I may be wrong but if you are knocking council staff and celebrating not sure this is any help. The company Cordia sounds like a private company to me, so the council cutbacks are in effect being passed on to the private sector. Just thought you'd like to know.

Exactly. But people just love to have a go at council workers, after all they are paying their wages, right?

If you want to get rich quick, working in local government is not a wise idea, believe me.