{"id":666,"date":"2012-03-08T18:43:37","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T18:43:37","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-03-08T18:43:37","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T18:43:37","slug":"unison-evaluate-the-one-barnet-bidders-14-march-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/2012\/03\/08\/unison-evaluate-the-one-barnet-bidders-14-march-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"UNISON &#8211; Evaluate the One Barnet bidders 14 March 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Barnet Council staff have had a visit from <strong>EC Harris<\/strong> &amp; <strong>Capita Symonds<\/strong>, both of whom were shortlisted through to the next round for the <b style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\">\u00a3275 million<\/b> Development &amp; Regulatory Services (DRS).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Both bidders delivered a presentation to staff and will now be going in confidential discussions with the Council. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">In the meantime there have been smaller scale One Barnet outsourcing taking place across the Council. <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Our branch is currently supporting members who are facing the daunting prospect of being handed a \u2018at risk of redundancy&#8217; letters in the first week of their TUPE transfer. In pre-consultation discussions UNISON has learnt\u00a0that some Council jobs being TUPED to the contractor are\u00a0 immediately going to be handed over to another subcontractor, all before the contract has even started!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">What is really upsetting staff is that senior managers have known about this, months ago!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Any way UNISON members working across <strong>DRS<\/strong> services are going to meet up for lunch on <strong>Wednesday 14 March<\/strong> to\u00a0<strong>evaluate <\/strong>the presentations delivered by EC Harris and Capita Symonds. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><strong>Key message<\/strong> to the Bidders from members\u00a0&#8211; <strong>\u2018Sign up to TUPE Plus\u2019 <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><b style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\">TUPE Plus<\/b> can be viewed <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012.Barnet%20UNISON%20TUPE%20PLUS.pdf\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; color: #800080;\">here<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barnet Council staff have had a visit from EC Harris &amp; Capita Symonds, both of whom were shortlisted through to the next round for the \u00a3275 million Development &amp; Regulatory Services (DRS). Both bidders delivered a presentation to staff and will now be going in confidential discussions with the Council. In the meantime there have been smaller scale One Barnet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}