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Shared Services Centre brings 65 50 20 jobs to Oldham
ONE of Oldham Council’s private sector partners, Mouchel, is bringing new jobs to Oldham by relocating services to the borough.
Fact: They are relocating because they were forced to close their Liverpool operation to save money.
The move by the consulting and business services group, to
consolidate some of its own business services to the town will bring
more than 50 jobs, with many being taken up by local people. How fucking many exactly?
A spokesman for Mouchel said in December: " We are
continuing to demonstrate our commitment to Oldham, most recently with
the announcement that we will be bringing 65 new jobs to the borough." So that's fifteen jobs gone already!
Twenty of the roles were filled following a successful (sic) recruitment day
in the council’s offices open to local residents, Oldham Council and
Unity Partnership staff. Twenty??? how many unemployed are there in Oldham?
Last October, Mouchel announced losses of over £14.7 million and was forced to reduce its staff by 2,000 across the country. Mouchel's
bankers, Barclays, RBS and Lloyds called in accountants Deloitte to
examine the company's books.At the time Mouchel had £180M of bank debt. I bet OMBC wish they had £180M.
Little Jimmy Pudden Face, leader of the Labour group which
appointed the Chief Executive who signed Oldham up to a 12 year
agreement with this company, said at the time, "we should delay transfering further
Council services to the partnership." “First we
have had to agree a bailout to stop losses following the failure of
Mouchel to bring in the promised new work". “We then had Oldham’s call
centre moved to Rochdale, and have been forced to accept a shared
management team with Rochdale to save money.” So, effectively, we have been
paying money, to save money, to a company that is losing money!
This money we are talking about is your money folks. It's what's left of your
council tax after the council have dipped their
stickies in it.
SOoo! what has changed now? Nowt probably. Mouchel are most likely still going down the pan. OMBC still haven't got a clue how to do anything efficiently and without a major cock-up. This probably explains the smiling simpleton's absence from the meaningless bullshit picture, not wanting to be seen having anything to do with the scheme. Sending instead Counc Daktari, looking like a bag of shit wrapped in a pudding cloth to represent this town. Do we need further reminders of how far this town has sunk when so-called civic leaders turn up for civic events looking like they've just rolled out of their wanking pit?
Incidentally how does all this fit in with Little Jimmy's plan for a utopian co-operative council? He's already giving t'divvi away to outsiders while our Councillors, Council Officials and Executive Officers do fucking less and less for ever more bucketfuls of our cash from the golden trough.
The firm’s joint venture with the council runs a
number of the authority’s services including ICT, highways and
engineering, property, and customer services such as Access Oldham in
the civic building, revenues and benefits and contact centre. This explains a lot of things.
"Its new Shared Services Centre in the Oldham Business Centre, Cromwell
Street, will provide ‘back office services’ such as finance, HR
administration, payroll and procurement services to the company’s 9,000
employees nationwide."
Are WE paying for this perchance?
Why would any organisation or authority want or need to employ this company who can't even run their own affairs competently and efficiently and post a £15M loss?
Previously, Mouchel’s services were split across a number of sites and
the company says the consolidation will provide a better, more efficient
service. Huh! They are supposedly a 'consulting and business services group.' They lost 15M Quid, had £180M of bank debt and had to ditch 2,000 staff! What exactly is their field of expertise? What can they teach OMBC who are quite capable of bankrupting this town without outside assistance? Sending us all down the shitter.
Counc Daktari, Deputy Leader and Member with Portfolio
for Painting and Decorating, said: “Mouchel is proving to be an
essential partner for the council during a period of tough financial
challenges. mainly brought about by our inability to run anything without it being a complete fuck-up. This move is good news for Oldham, bringing extra jobs,
skills and revenue to the town.” Until the next £15M goes down the pan that is. Why do we need to import more people into the town? We have enough home grown talent with the skills to destroy the jobs and revenues of this sad place.
Peter Studd, Shared Services Director for Mouchel, said: “Our new Shared
Service Centre will enable us to offer more effective business services
like payroll, finance and HR. Can the wanker not see the irony here? Here he is blowing his corporate trumpet for a company that can't even keep it's own affairs in order. This could only happen
in to Oldham.
BULLSHIT....BULLSHIT AND YET MORE BULLSHIT!!!!!
YOU WERE WARNED.....IT'S NOT TOO LATE TO SAY.....NO !!