PPC- sheeple revolution

The_Slithy_Tove

bt42 wrote: »

My evangelism has to some extent fallen on deaf ears. I've tried pointing to these fora but I see the same person a week later as they've not been able to find these links and asked the union who have advised them to pay up, as somebody they know who ignored it got a letter from a 'Graham White solicitors who asked for £500'

Any advice on how to spread the message? I'm running out of ideas

Maybe you should start with the union. They have more power and influence than you, and can get away with pi**ing off the management a bit. Talk to your union rep, and start the process of educating them of the whole scam, so at least they can start giving the correct advice when approached by other members of staff. If the uinion is on your side, you can then tell other people who get APCOA tickets to check with the union, where you know they'll get the right advice.

ManxRed

bt42 wrote: »

...as somebody they know who ignored it got a letter from a 'Graham White solicitors who asked for £500'

Any chance of getting hold of a copy of this? I've only ever seen him go as high as £207.25.

hoohoo

If you really want a sheeple revolution, here are a few ideas.

1) Organise, organise, organise. In particular, organise one or more parking obedience days, with as many people as possible joining in
2) On parking obedience days, if there is not an available parking space, everybody who cannot park should; phone their manager asking where to park; ask him/her for an email authorising them to use the visitors parking space or some other; phone whichever management department controls parking; ask them for email permission to park elsewhere; ask them for a refund on their parking permit for the day; ask for authorisation than any parkinginvoices will be cancelled;do this all patiently and calmly and to a script - no getting excited and abusive; don't turn up to work until you can park, but keep phoning and emailing to let your managers know of you progress trying to find a parking place.
3) For those people who have (ever) had invoices and paid, get union help to individually use the small claims court to claim the money back from their employer. They paid for parking; the management failed to provide it, and deliberately organised to penalise staff for management failings. That should at least be worth a claim. Hundreds or thousands of claims is going to ram the point home in a fairly convincing way. Obviously, there is a cost involved in doing this, which is why I hope the union can help out, both financially and tactically
4) Publicise. Hundreds of small claims will be worthy of making the national news. Get other hospitals, oops strikeout, large similar organisations suffering the same problem, to mount similar campaigns.
5) Organise a parking disobedience day. Get *every single person* to park halfway across the white lines. (Watch the parking attendent orgasm!). Send every single parking invoice for this day to management, together with every follow up letter. Challenge every invoice with the PPC on the grounds that everyone else was parked like that, so you had to as well. Appeal every single one to POPLA. Repeat this day once a week/month until the PPC goes bankrupt from POPLA charges/gives up.
6) Don't know if this transgresses DVLA rules, so get some advice on this one. If the car park classes as public road maintained by council then you might not be able to do it. Get car covers, and cover the car so the numberplate and tax disc are covered whenever people have to park in visitor car parks. Or remove the tax disc and use number plate covers (£3.50 each) http://www.directsupplyukltd.co.uk/products/number-plate-covers/176/
You will have to devise secure fixing though so the parking gorilla cannot just lift them up. S/He may be committing an offense if he does this, so if he is, consider getting a friend to photograph him doing this and then take action again the parking company.

RENEGADE_2

Concerning Point 5. That is not normally the case, it is private property owned by the trust. Had it been public road, there would have been no barrier system to prevent unauthorised individuals from entering.

It's a nice thought but how can you seriously instill confidence into the hundreds of unsuspecting motorists? It is the odd few that know the score, most of the rest surrender to the fake authority.