Birmingham City Council Outsourcing
Posted by Roger Godsiff, MP for Birmingham, Hall Green, at 16:10, Thu 2 June 2011:
Following on from the news that Birmingham City Council are to transfer over 100 jobs to India Roger Godsiff said of the decision; 'Sacking Council employees and sending their jobs to call centres in India is not going to offer improved services for the people of Birmingham. It is a shabby decision by the Council and their private sector partner, Capita, to get low paid non-union people in India, who have minimum employment rights, to do the jobs on the cheap thereby making savings for the Council and bigger profits for Capita.’
‘I find it ridiculous that the International Development Secretary, who is a Birmingham MP, should be giving large sums of development aid, paid for out of the taxes paid by hard pressed British taxpayers, to India, which is one of the largest and fastest growing economies in the world, while at the same time supporting the Conservative/Lib.Dem Council in Birmingham sacking Birmingham staff in order to transfer their jobs to India leaving, once again, the British taxpayers to pay for the ongoing cost of these redundancies.’
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Posted by Mohammed Hemraj, 18:49, Thu 2 June 2011: (Is this post abusive?) #
Britain has to be competitive if it has to survive, if India can do it why not us? Again payment for redundancy is a joke. There will come a time when taxpayers money will dry up. We need new thinking and new policy but who is prepared to listen?
Posted by martin ayres, 11:14, Sat 4 June 2011: (Is this post abusive?) #
I dont think this has anything to do with being competitive but allowing multi national comnpanies to make bigger profits by outsourcing to countries which have poorer paid workers who are offered less protection than their counterparts in other countries.
What the city council fail to appreciate is the loss of taxes and incomes for other services such as retail, lesiure and transport by making people redundant. where is the sense in that?
Posted by Mohammed Hemraj, 19:57, Sun 5 June 2011: (Is this post abusive?) #
I agree that UK has to be competitive but how can it be with 20 per cent VAT, supporing the unemployed, going to war which has nothing to do with us and supporting immigrants and asylum seekers. We should learn from China and India who are going to be the next supper power, thanks to the failed policies of the US and UK.