Tuesday 15 July 2008

"Firms must promote union membership to win government contracts"

The Labour Party - originally established as the political wing of the Trade Union movement - has now reverted to type is doing its paymasters' bidding.

Fair enoughski, this was only a matter of time.

The bit I like best is the idea that "Employees working on government projects in the private sector must also be given literacy and numeracy training if they lack basic skills."

Er ... so up to now bidders for government contracts (themselves big chums of Nulab as we well know) have been employing people who "lack basic skills"? I mean, it wouldn't surprise me, educational standards being what they are and the quality of the services provided being, frankly, abysmal.

What's reassuring is to see this confirmed.

3 comments:

marksany said...

in my industry, customer often audit the qualifications and training of staff before they award a contract. But they'd prefer our staff were not in a union!

CityUnslicker said...

Deloitte, PWC etc are gonna luv having to make their staff join a union!!

Snafu said...

So the failure of public sector education to provide workers with basic skills is to be remedied by the private sector!