This month’s HR committee meeting was enlivened by the presence of cabinet member Alan Rudge, who not for the first time veered off-message in a spectacular fashion.
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Leading Birmingham Tory Alan Rudge has issued a clarion call in support of the Big Society, demanding that communities be set free from government diktats and helped to take more responsibility for their own lives.Read
The Government has been urged to step in and sort out a “legal farce” that has cost already Birmingham City Council £200 million in equal pay claims.Read
Details have emerged of a major compromise over plans to remove unsocial hours payments and other wage perks from 26,000 Birmingham City Council employeesRead
Keith Barton, the Longbridge Tory councillor who last year failed in an attempt to become deputy Conservative group leader, appears to have extracted a measure of revenge over those in the party who persuaded him to contest a position he was never likely to win.Read
Half a century’s worth of pay and conditions agreements are set to be ripped up as Birmingham City Council’s political leadership attempts to impose “modern” employment conditions on its workforce.Read
It’s been difficult to find anyone who will actually admit to having attended Birmingham City Council’s Papal banquet last Saturday. Perhaps those that wined and dined at taxpayers’ expense, including we are told several very important Catholic dignitaries, have their own reasons for pursuing a silent vigil.Read
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