Three Filing Cabinets Outside Annemarie's Office, Glasgow (28/10/18)



The connection between Glasgow City Council and 'Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri' comes down to the contents of three mysterious filing cabinets located somewhere in or around Glasgow City Chambers.

The important thing is that these three filing cabinets contain all of the archived information about the Council's 'unfit for purpose' WPBR pay scheme which was introduced back in 2006/07.

I've been asking the Council for months (via a number of FOI Requests) to explain what is actually in the filing cabinets and to share information which I believe should be in the public domain such as:
  • What were the Terms of Reference for the WPBR?
  • How was the WPBR commissioned and was the brief put out to commercial tender?
  • Why did the Council not use the Scottish Joint Council scheme recommended by COSLA and the Trade Unions?
  • What was the total cost of the WPBR?
  • Who 'signed off' on the key provisions of the WPBR? 
So far, Glasgow has refused my FOI requests even though this information would show whether senior officials council officials acted in 'good faith', as the chief executive claims.

Or whether they went along with the blatantly discriminatory provisions of the WPBR including its notorious 37 hour rule which, I say, was designed to disadvantage the Council's female dominated jobs.

Tune in again tomorrow for more startling revelations.  
 
  

Glasgow and 'Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri' (25/10/18)


Everyone knows that the filmmakers of the 'Fast and Furious' franchise are in town, but who can guess the connection between Glasgow City Council and 'Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri' - a sometimes harrowing and hard to watch, but otherwise excellent, movie starring Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell? 

   



 

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