Care workers in North Staffordshire homes face £400 cut in wages

“It's a old Tory law your T&C say the same for 52 weeks unless your new one's are better come on trade unions start looking after your members after all you are more then happy taking the sub's”

“The reason for the TUPE agreement is to give the employee some protection. In this case it seems as if they are not making as much profit as they would like. This being put out to tender in the first instance, if they have got their figures wrong when putting in for this contract, that is their mistake. If they can not operate within the amount of money that contract states they should either stop operating in full, giving up all the contracts with the NHS or at least in part of them. But that will not happen, simple reason being, when up for renewal they will not get them, or should not, they will be deemed as risk, like any business. But the employee should be protected, as this is some kind of partnership, they should be taking notice what is going on here. What will these people do next, gradually take away services provided to these people. Profit before care. It will be your NHS PENSION NEXT. i assume you went across to these people with that still being intact. Privatisation in these areas tend to lead to ,worse pay, worse conditions for both staff and service users/ patient . Good Luck and Fight it.”

“Unlike combined healthcare who get their money from the tax payer ie a bottomless pit of money, Turning Point don't have this luxury as all their money has to be accounted for and if the books don't balance someone gets into trouble.
The reason for these former NHS employees losing their NHS jobs is down to the Liebour party and UNISON. And the fact that Jenny Harvey has said "We cannot possibly accept this attack on our hard-working members and we will fight it" shows UNISON policy for what it is.”

“Putting workers on temporary contracts, and then sacking them at the end of the contact and reinstating them for less pay, was something that Mrs T brought out in the 1980s after she clobbered the unions. Its exploitation, the nurses have my every sympathy.”

“"the charity's annual profits have grown to £302,000"

How can a 'charity' make a profit?

How about cutting this 'charity's executive pay instead, after all it is a 'charity' isn't it, and as such executives should be working for the benefit of the charity, not their personal gain.

Oh, wait, it isn't really a charity at all is it, it's a business solely reliant on government contracts.

http://tinyurl.com/c6ao8gh”

“Completely unreasonable to expect the workers to take a drop in their pay of up to £100 per week, they are hardly going to be high earners to start with are they?”

“what the hell is that a picture of?”

“yet more pay cuts for the workers how about the bosses taking a pay cut”

“'Spokesman Laura Conn' I must say the name is very apt lol”