Guest 1694- Registered: 24 Feb 2016
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Howard, the DHB has signed contracts with third party suppliers for which I do not know the details. Until I know the details of these contracts I can't make 100% commitments, the guys who work at the port and the Union with whom I am in almost daily touch know that and understand. DPPT is committed to ensuring that the port's workers get a fair deal, workers will have direct representation on the board of directors to ensure that this happens.
Christine, I'm working on it every day, making every effort to change the situation for the port's workers for the better.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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fair comment neil there are so many inponderables.
Guest 705- Registered: 23 Sep 2010
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So can we tick that one off Howard?
Never give up...
Guest 688- Registered: 16 Jul 2009
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I think you will find Alexander it has more to do with a potential shares windfall and who will benefit than reducing the pension pot.
Guest 705- Registered: 23 Sep 2010
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2 million quid in his bin...sorted!
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Guest 705- Registered: 23 Sep 2010
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...and that is what this whole damn caboodle is all about Alex.
Never give up...
Guest 1694- Registered: 24 Feb 2016
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The Pension fund pays out to retired employees, not current ones. Direct employees contribute to the pension and keep money coming, the more employees paying in, the easier it is to control the scheme's deficit. Outsourcing actually increases pension deficits because fewer and fewer direct employees are paying in to help support more and more retired staff. Of course, this is far from the whole story behind the pension deficit, or necessarily even the biggest single contributor, but it plays its part.
Guest 1694- Registered: 24 Feb 2016
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Christine, The Department for Transport has been informed, letters and people whiz back and forth rather regularly between Dover and the DfT. There is a current ongoing communication between workers and Ministers, the latter are at last taking full note of the damage that the current port management are doing to the business.
Guest 673- Registered: 16 Jun 2008
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It seems incredible that DHB should be attempting further outsourcing at this critical juncture when a decision on privatisation is apparently finally about to be made. This totally undermines their pretence to be a touchy-feely organisation longing to improve the lot of the poor old Dovorians outside their gates once they have dispensed with their Trust Port status.
Can there be an ulterior motive to the endless sequence of deplorable decisions the present board have taken which have made them so thoroughly detested by their workforce, the ferry companies, the population of Dover, et al?
Is it possible that this is all designed to make the DHB of today so despised by everybody involved that they all fervently endorse the move to privatise, whatever the drawbacks, just to see the back of them? Whereupon they can all march off into the sunset with their cut of the proceeds, selling off the nation's family silver has never failed to make rich men of the lucky occupants sitting in the chair when the music stops.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Brian Dixon
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i see that report in the dover express yesterday,rather blunt and to the point.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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as far as i can ascertain the lorry park would be a win/win situation for dover so not sure what else the council leader could say on the issue.
Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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Yes Alexander
Outsourcing and selling of service in NHS, council ,and apparently the port of Dover
Would be driven by pension liabilities and employment rights legislating
It's a shame the money saving push doesn't stretch in to the managements pay perks and contracts
Privet sector buyers do not wont a rigid maintained workforce with employment rights,
They won't agency workers so they can start and stop employment at the drop of the hat ,with no legal issues
Guest 688- Registered: 16 Jul 2009
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I ,genuinely, despair of the intrigues,both spiritual and temporal,that D.H.B.continue to become embroiled in.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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john
any more of your posts and i am going to have to purchase a dictionary.
Guest 688- Registered: 16 Jul 2009
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Please accept my sincerest apologies Howard
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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no problem john, i have made intense enquiries and can confirm to our members that "temporal" means "of or related to time"
that should clarify things.