Tori Blare

Tori Blare
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Thursday, May 24, 2007

City of the Dead*: IT'S CRIMINAL: "'THE COUNCIL ARE OVERSPENT AND NEED TO FIND MORE MONEY TO FUND CAPITAL OF CULTURE..."

WHAT PRICE IS IT TO GET OLD?

£130,000 IS THE AVERAGE PAY FOR CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF LIVERPOOL.

THE SALARY OF HIS UNDERSTUDIES OR ASSISTANT EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS, IS OVER £100,000 PLUS A 20% BONUS EACH YEAR.
WHAT ARE THE REQUIREMENTS OF THIS BONUS?
MAYBE HOW MANY ELDERLY PEOPLE WILL DIE DUE TOT HE REPEATED AND ILL JUDGED CHANGES AND CUTS WITHIN THE HOME HELP SERVICES OF LIVERPOOL?

SEE BELOW THE EXTRACT FROM CITY OF THE DEAD BLOGSPOT, THIS SHOWS JUST HOW THE FEELINGS OF LIVERPOOL RESIDENTS IS GETTING LOUDER.

DON'T JUST SIT BACK AND LET YOUR SERVICES BE TAKEN AWAY FROM YOU!

WRITE TO THE BLOGS, WRITE TO YOUR COUNCILLORS, WRITE TO THE PAPERS, WRITE TO JOE HANSON!

JUST DO SOMETHING



City of the Dead*: IT'S CRIMINAL: "'THE COUNCIL ARE OVERSPENT AND NEED TO FIND MORE MONEY TO FUND CAPITAL OF CULTURE..."

Monday, May 21, 2007

IT'S CRIMINAL: "'THE COUNCIL ARE OVERSPENT AND NEED TO FIND MORE MONEY TO FUND CAPITAL OF CULTURE..."

Stanford88 has left a new comment on your post "THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE...":


Hi Tony.

Thanks for your support.

I attended a meeting in the North of the city last week organised by the Liverpool Care Slaves United.

Over 100 people showed up and we met a local labour councillor Joe Hanson.

I spoke to carers from all different parts of the city who are all in the same position - facing about 30% PAY CUT !

The Labour Party can't believe that the council are trying to force such cuts through on the private sector workers and they are vowing to help us in our struggle for equal rights of pay.

If you dont mind I would like to take this opportunity to tell other care workers that are concerned about what the council are doing to contact Joe Hanson.

His email address is :joseph.hanson@liverpool.gov.uk

The same answers keep coming back on this when we ask why is the council changing the contract?

Answers.....1) The council are overspent and need to find more money to fund the Capital of Culture stuff. I would ask, why target the care services?

2) When they have come up with the idea of this new homecare contract, they have not thought through the knock on effect on the carers and workforce in the city. I would ask, who are the people making these decisions without speaking to us?

3) It is to increase efficiency and is better for the council tax payer. I would ask, why target just the private sector service? Home Help staff are being paid for their spare capacity and also get paid for their traveling time. District nurses and health authority staff get paid for shifts of work, that includes traveling time.

WHY ARE WE ANY DIFFERENT?

IT IS NOT EQUAL IT IS NOT FAIR

Tony, I say : CUT THE CULTURE BUDGET, NOT THE CARE BUDGET - and let us continue to do our job caring for the elderly of this city and giving them the time and quality of life they deserve.


Posted by Stanford88 to City of the Dead* at Monday, May 21, 2007 11:44:00 AM

14 comments:

Anonymous said...

Cultue
A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect.

Anonymous said...

Regarding Care Workers Pay.

Can I ask just a simple question ? Why me?
I am a care worker working for an independant Care Agency. I have a mortgage and 3 beautiful children who need all the things that children require. Like food, clothes,toys,outings etc act.

My pay is about to be cut by 30%. Why me?
My hours wont be guaranteed. Why me?
There is legislation against discrimination racial discrimination, age discrimination, sexual discrimination and lots of other discrimination.
Discrimination against private Agency care workers? Doesn’t exist and its rife.

They say it’s to save tax payers money. But why me?
Has anybody asked the tax payers why it should be me?
District nurses do the same kind of job. Why not them?
The ‘In House’ service do the same job. Why not them?
Age concern do the same job. Why not them?
Other big charities do the same job. Why not them.
Its all paid for by tax payers.

Cant get it out of my head. Why me?
Has anybody asked the tax payers do they want to save money on people who care for vulnerable people?
Has anybody asked the tax payers if it should be just me?
I will go home to my 3 kids to night they will ask.

Why you Mum ?

Rose

Anonymous said...

Hi Mr. Parish.

I am so mad about this.

My Uncle receives care from an agency.

I spoke yesterday with his main carers. They said that if the 30% cut effects them, they will have no choice but leave and find a new job that pays decent wages and offers them stable work. What will happen to my uncle then? If most of the carers in the city feel and act in the same way, who will care for him? I think that carers do a fantastic job and they should not be steamrollered over by the council because they want to save money on the capital of culture. Carers have mortgages, just like Warren Bradley. How would he react to a 30% pay cut?

We need our carers. Something has to be done to stop this nonsense. Reading through your web site, it appears that if the council stopped spending so much money on yachts, paying off its staff and incompetence we may stand a chance of looking after people like my uncle and at least give him some quality of life like he has now with the carers he knows and is used to.

Lets put some things in to perspective, if ONLY one of the councils officials is making say £150 000 per year, and they took a 30% pay cut, £45 000 would pay for over 1 years work of care for my uncle. On the other hand, how many carers wages do they have to slash for the same effect?

Capital of Culture or Capital of Vultures? Leave the carer workers alone. Their job is hard enough without people kicking the legs from under them.

Madness!

Tori Blare said...

Thought you all should know, despite the private sector being told to take a 30% cut in wages with no minimum hours, the Council run in house home carers are being made redundant.
The work they did have was given to the private sector, no new work is taken on except for 6 weeks if you are just out of hospital. Most of the carers from the council do not have work to do, this is because the stupid adult services let the service run down on purpose.
The aim of the council is to get rid of all the carers, of what is termed generic, they cost too much in paying staff to go home and wait until they get a call with some work, or walking the streets, many have become so disillusioned they have gone off ill. This of course costs a lot of money, so lets just get rid of them!
This needs just as much publicity as the private sector.
Care in Liverpool is excellent,when allowed to give it.
The Capital of Culture should not be cut, the disgusting high wages of these so called heads of the council and the Chief Executive, this is wht should be cut.

WHAT PRICE IS IT TO GET OLD?

Keep the pressure up Care workers, private and council.

If you are getting old, be very afraid as unless you have lots of money, there is nothing down for you.
Oh and lets not forget the Day Centres that the council are always trying to close down, Venmore Mews?
What has happened to that one?
Notice how the cuts in services for the elderly were not publicised until after the election?

Dirty Liberal Democrats, dirty dirty....

Anonymous said...

I am just a simple tax payer. I have nobody using the care services in Liverpool.I am sure I will need to use the serice at some time in my life.(Although I hope not) All I can ask is what the bloody hell is going on in Social Services in Liverpool? In House facing cuts.Private sector facing cuts.....everybody facing cuts.and they say the service is getting better. JUST WHAT THE BLOODY HELL IS GOING ON ?? (after all it is my money they are using)

Onlooker said...

I think that's right - we should not have to choose between Culture and Care. Both are important to people. What is wrong is the huge salaries for incompetent officials like Halsall and Hilton and Harbrow and the millions they have wasted on yachts and trips abroad and being sent back to school so they can find out how to do their jobs properly. We have seen no benefit.

Anonymous said...

I'll wager that someone somewhere in the City is doing very nicely thank you out of this and I bet that he or she is within the Evil Cabal

Anonymous said...

You bet your life someone is doing very well out of this and its not the service users or care staff.Its immoral

Anonymous said...

Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and more stupendous than the old savage sort. An Augean stable of metallic filth

Anonymous said...

"Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us."

Tony Parrish47 said...

Let's not get too esoteric now - people's livelihoods are at risk here....

Pam said...

Glad somebody realises livelihoods are at risk.

Stanford88 said...

That’s right Mr Parish.

There’s nothing mysterious or cryptic about my 30% pay cut!

The only mystery I face is how I pay my mortgage and feed my kids from July !

MILDRED said...

I'm getting old and I'm getting very very scared at the thought of my arthritis getting worse and my sight not improving, I cannot get around much at the moment but I manage without help for most of the time. I know that soon,in maybe 3 years, I hope its not so soon, but I know at some time I will need someone to look after me and help me with my essential needs.
Who will help me then?
Some young girl just out of school looking for a few bob now and again?
Or will we all stand up now and tell the council ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!

The elderly of today are the very people who helped build the services the council is now trying to destroy.

Do we agree that our elderly are not important?

Is your Mother of no importance now ?
Why did your Grandad go to War?
Was it so he could be treated like dirt now?
Private or Council Home carers, we need to stand up for the elderly and show that sometimes the cost of a service should not be the first factor of consideration, cutting costs is not the answer in care, providing quality services using highly trained and committed workers, who actually care about the people the look after! This is the most important factor.

The most effective way of achieving a balanced budget is......?????

Colin Hilton Take a cut in your wages, I survive on £325 per week with 2 children, why can't you?

Phil Halsal.. You are supposed to be good at finances? Try this one for size then... take a cut in wages yourself! I know a mad idea, but just try it you will be amazed at how easy it would be for you, anyway your son can keep you in the custom you are used to, is he on the Sefton Pops?
All the other useless AED's of Liverpool City Council and the senior managers who don't seem to actual manage anything? TAKE A CUT IN YOUR WAGES FOR ONLY A YEAR AND WE WILL BE BACK ON TRACK!

LEAVE THE ELDERLY ALONE!

WE WILL ALL BE OLD SOON!

Sunday, May 06, 2007

IS IT REALLY A COINCIDENCE THAT THERE WERE 10 SPOILED PAPERS IN THE CROXTETH VOTE??

IS IT REALLY A COINCIDENCE THAT THERE WERE

10 SPOILED PAPERS IN THE


CROXTETH VOTE??


Election 2007: More details emerge of fracas at Liverpool count
May 5 2007
by Caroline Innes, Liverpool Daily Post
FURTHER details emerged last night of a fracas at Thursday’s election count involving Liverpool leader Warren Bradley and a Labour candidate – but everybody was telling a different story.
Police were called in as the high drama erupted after it became clear the vote count for Croxteth would be a close call between the Lib-Dems’ Phil Moffatt and Labour candidate Jim Noakes.
Tempers began to fray after returning officer Colin Hilton asked bystanders to step away from the table during a third recount.
Yesterday, Cllr Bradley, who had been watching the count with Cllr Moffatt, said police tried to protect him from Labour members. “The Labour candidate took umbrage that I was giving Phil some advice and tried to barge into me,” he said.
“The police stood by me all night as they were concerned that tensions within the Labour party were running high.”
But Mr Noakes, backed up by his party leader, Cllr Joe Anderson, said it was Cllr Bradley’s proximity to the count table which had started the scuffle.
“Colin Hilton told everyone except candidates and the agents to step away from the table,” he said.
“Warren Bradley wouldn’t move back. He wouldn’t let me get past to reach my agent who was at the other end of the table, so I said he should move back, and that’s when it all happened. It was handbags really.”
By 3am, it was obvious there was still discrepan-cies in the count totals and Mr Hilton announced the count was being abandoned.
Cllr Moffat was even-tually elected to the seat yesterday morning with 1,246 votes, just 10 more than Mr Noakes, who took 1,236. Ironically, there were 10 spoiled papers.