Valentine's Day transport service protest in Brighton (From The Argus)
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Valentine's Day transport service protest in Brighton
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A union has organised a Valentine’s Day protest over a “massacre” of a transport service.
The Government has announced that it is looking at closing the 39 regional Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency centres in a bid to save £28 million.
The move would see 23 people working at the agency’s centre in Trafalgar Place, Brighton, at risk of losing their jobs.
The Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union has now announced a protest will take place outside the building between 12.30pm and 1.30pm tomorrow (Tuesday, February 14).
PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka said: “We will not sit back and watch while jobs and highly-prized public services are stripped away.“The closure plans are not based on what the people who use these services say they want and need, but on a politically motivated desire to unpick our public services.”
Comments(13)
fredaj
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4:51pm Sun 12 Feb 12
pperrin
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5:29pm Sun 12 Feb 12
The Student Loan Company has over a thousand employees in Scotland - a country whose students don't even pay fees!! Bring those jobs south now!
I remember Simon Kirby was calling for more governement jobs to be moved to Brighton - I wonder if he has a comment on this?
http://www.brightona
ndhovenews.org/2011/
03/05/mp-urges-minis
ters-to-move-staff-a
nd-offices-to-bright
on/6066
Bladesboy Returns
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6:06pm Sun 12 Feb 12
Any business that traded on a similar basis would expect the same.
Lets migrate more of the processes to on-line asap!
yaddab
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6:08pm Sun 12 Feb 12
fredaj wrote:Yes, I am trying to work that one out as well
The protest is tomoorow? But tomorrow is not Valentine's Day.
Number Six
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6:28pm Sun 12 Feb 12
papa_melons
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6:34pm Sun 12 Feb 12
pperrin
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6:42pm Sun 12 Feb 12
papa_melons wrote:I guess he can afford to have people to protest for him...
PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka said: “We will not sit back and watch while jobs and highly-prized public services are stripped away. Instead, we will hold a very small scale protest during a staggered lunch break tomorrow, where a few of us might hold up some handwritten placards "
george smith
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9:39pm Sun 12 Feb 12
They seemed to understand that the greedy bankers hid the bad loans.
Now they are bearing the brunt of the pay back their is barely a murmour from them.
Don't they care whatis being done to their own children?
kkj
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10:07am Mon 13 Feb 12
yaddab wrote:Have you worked it out yet?
fredaj wrote:Yes, I am trying to work that one out as well
The protest is tomoorow? But tomorrow is not Valentine's Day.
Stories are often uploaded to the website the evening before publication of the actual hard-copy newspaper. If you were reading the paper when it was published, rather than the website, it would be correct.
Brightonlad
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11:12pm Mon 13 Feb 12
Joshiman
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9:09am Tue 14 Feb 12
Bladesboy Returns
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3:27pm Tue 14 Feb 12
It does beg the question as to what the other 20 staff actually do?
Any correction to the above, and or clarification appreciated!
Vigilia says...
3:20pm Sun 12 Feb 12
It read to me as a politically motivated desire to save £28 million.