Yesterday Unite the Union, together with the Government’s Human Resources department, held a well-attended presentation on the Government’s pension scheme at the John Macintosh hall for school lunch attendants. The meeting was opened by Unite’s Government Convenor Angelique Borastero and gave the members an insight on pension options and their benefits as well as other relevant information.
The Foreign Office has described an incident last Friday in which a British Government diplomatic bag was opened and searched by Guardia Civil officers as it was being couriered across the frontier as a “serious infringement of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.”
Responding to the GSD’s statement on the Future Job Strategy and it’s high cost to the Government, No.6 has stated that the GSD’s former Vocational Training Scheme was not structured. A statement adds, ‘the useless GSD Vocational Training Scheme (VTS) which used to pay cheap labour rates of £400 or less a month up to 2011. According to the GSD this discredited scheme had resulted in 28% of those participating obtaining employment after completion. They called this 28% a huge success..’
The Governement says that the GSD's “new found interest” in the City Fire Brigade (CFB) is a “curious change” from their approach when in Government, given the huge problems the Brigade suffered at that time, as best evidenced, it says, by the demonstrations firemen carried out to the doors of No6 Convent Place on more than one occasion.
