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THE FIRST government service Gloucestershire to go private will change hands later this Wages will be slashcycaf • ed and there fears that dozens of jobs could be at risk.
Catering and housekeeping at the Fire Service Training College in Noreon-ln-Varsi will be taken over by Grandnel ou 30 August. , 140 workers are affected and they have been invited to apply for jobs with Grandmet. There however, no guarantee that they will get them.
I nose Slaylng on will Grandmet will see their Nving standards lal Dack to 1975/76 levels. Most wil sutter cuts in pay of between f20 and f30 per week The Home Office, the ministry responsible for the training college, is expecting to pay out between £150,000 £200,000 in redundancy payments. That will only compensate most domestic services conyet tract cancelled owing to poor work quality • Lister Hospital, Hertfordshire - laundry contract cancelled and giver to NHS laundry which the was cheaper • Paddington North Kensington AulnorIu saved £100,000 by going inCROUSC For another 16 exalllolc ingham NALGO Health get the BirmBranch Pamphlet Profi out of Health, , price £1 Avallahlé 6h Floor, ,Trafalgar House, Paradise Circus, Queensway, Birmingham, 2BQ.
those who stav for les than twelve months. As Luc moncy ruIo oue • LIC| living standards will fall dramatically.
The Managing Direc. tor of Grandmet Catering in London none other than Mr Dick Turpin. 'His name fits his job' said Jack Dromey, the national officer for the Public Services lrade Groun of the Transport General Workers' WILOS members at the. college is, are affected .The IGWU has written to the Home Secretary, Leon Brittan, asking him to intervene.
protest has been supported by the Fire Brigades The matter is also to be raised parlamentar. group of the TGWU in the House of Commons 'The first Dick Tur used the fear . the dole Times may have changed but robbery doesn't', said Jack Dromey.
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