Guest 699- Registered: 3 Jun 2010
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predictable ----- these security firms now use zero hour contracts --- even local ones
so you can work for 14 hours at olympic site one day travel from dover ( 2 hour journey each way due to more traffic ) then they want you back next day fro the same meaning you have 3 hours sleep and then they say we dont want anymore to last 2 days but dont get another job , just incase we need you at any time and make sure you are by the phone
zero hours contracts --- a nasty thing that has come in from ireland
Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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G4S have not come out of this very well at all, this shortfall follows a recent revelation that they have been falsifying records of dog teams on duty at the Olympic sight, all deliveries were supposed to be checked by sniffer dogs to prevent anything being put into the structure, records were showing dog teams on site, no doubt to comply with the contract, and there in fact being none there. Perhaps G4S have become too big?
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Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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I thought this 'zero-hours' contract stuff came over from the US and was used extensively in the fast-food trade. You work hard during the breakfast run and are then told to sit down at one of the tables until lunch time. Being paid only for the time you are behind the counter.
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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The ferry companies also offer zero-hour contracts.
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Guest 658- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Deep joy some of those deployed to get the govt out of the deep and smelly have already been told that they are no longer required in hm forces. Politicians red or blue are a bunch of ***** Check out the names of the advisers to g4s on the board. It tells a story corrupt politicos.
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Privatisation fails again.Private medicine failed breast implant patients costing NHS
thousands.
Private company G4S has failed Olympic security requirements with the added security
problem that the 3,500 soldiers will be used from the serious emergency reserve.
...what a shambles.
Theresa May gave assurances everything was OK a week ago......
# 5.Any chance of the details please....
Keith Sansum1
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oh my blimey, privatisation failing big time raises its ugly head again
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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This Government is Privatizing at a gallop in the NHS and in our Police Force and many
other areas.
When will this lot will be thinking of the thin edge of the wedge for MI 5 and MI 6 ?
...too far fetched ?..........not with this lot,security is being dealt with in an irresponsible
manner for the Olympic Games......a prime target...
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Those out there who wish to defy and cause problems such as terrorism, hope never happens are well organised and find the flaws
one area the country needs to know it has done everything it can to keep people as safe as possible, not cut corners
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Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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"Security firm's Olympic windfall
The firm at the centre of the Olympic security row saw its contract to manage civilian staff increase by more than £50 million over the past two years, it has been reported."
Full story...
http://www.pressassociation.com/component/pafeeds/2012/07/13/security_firms_olympic_windfall_4?camefrom=homeIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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g4s seem to have taken on more than they can handle, "a" level students drafted in and now the troops.
what sort of train8ing and briefing can be given in such a short space of time?
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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lets hope the security is tight
but this doesnt give you confidence
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Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Let's hope the security is proportionate to the threat...a forlorn hope that one though. One mock-cigarette closes a motorway and has a coach-load of innocents frog marched around at the point of a gun...
Maybe they should recruit from the Chelsea barracks bus-loads of Corporal Jones's?
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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sorry tom
'although you choose one that went wrong and i understand a bad cock up
kings cross etc are always close to my mind
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Guest 683- Registered: 11 Feb 2009
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This really is shambolic despite what government ministers may say. I am also concerned about the penalty clauses as a spokesman yesterday for the government seemed to suggest that the only consequence would be that G4S would not get paid for the staff they did not recruit. Of course there must be more to it than this as we know the private sector lives and dies on its merit and performance and certainly couldn't be relying on bail out by tax payers.
Unfortunately it does little to allay the belief that the games are more about benefiting big business than sport and, according to a woman on the Today programme this morning, sporting legacy.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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well the private industry g45 in this case has a lot to answer for
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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# 5.guzzler.Have checked everywhere for the details.No joy can you please give us the
the names etc of advisors and political connections?
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Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
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Govt is to blame as usual.
This would have gone to tender, a company wins the tender based on the specifications, since then the goal posts have moved. Its easy for govt to blame the supplier, in this case a security company, when its useless civil servants that have messed up.
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Thanks Tom.What a can of worms.A right bunch of elite greedy pigs.
This lot do not need lobbyists,they are lobbyists and elite greedy pigs all in one.
Cross section politically.This needs more research.
It doesn`t matter which government is in power they are prepared.
The dangers of Privatization is all there............
