Reading Borough Council meets workers and talks about the new contract

11/3/2010

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Workers from across Reading schools met in central Reading last night to hear Colin McIntosh talk about the new contract procurement process and hear concerns from workers over current practices in the Chartwells contract. Kit Kats, tea and coffee flowed as Colin spoke about the staff being front and centre in the contract negotiations and UNISON being on the Procurement Board. It was a great evening and as a result an urgent meeting was scheduled between the council and Chartwells re: some of the practices being dished out to our workers.

 Here is some of what we discussed:

- Cutlery & equipment
- Rummaging through bins
- Being told to 'make do'
- Chartwells training of mobile and agency staff
- Lack of consultation over new pay structure
- Micklands phone line issue
- Training time for e-learning
- Lack of office equipment, e.g. toner cartridges
- Communication...this is a real biggie
- The banking and liability insurance
- Trolleys and carrying of meals
- Halal policies and training
- Rish register
- Steamer replacements
- Managers and their differing practices
- And the Christmas Puddings!

And that was just in two hours!
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3/22/2011 07:22:51 pm

He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. In 1847, the son of a man who was consumed, passionately consumed, with the workings of the human voice, how it is produced and used, and especially, in teaching the deaf how to use it. For in those days, you see, the deaf lived in permanent solitude. Not only could they not hear, they could not speak. After all, how could they pronounce words, they couldn’t hear? Perhaps this obsession of the elder Bell was one of the reasons he married whom he did. For the woman who would give birth to the inventor of the telephone…… was deaf!

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3/23/2011 04:41:57 pm

So, when the government of France awarded him the Volta Prize for inventing the telephone, he combined this monetary award with the money hye made from selling the patent on another invention to establish the Volta Bureau in Washington, D. C. . Its purpose was to fund research on deafness. Today, it is called the Alexander Graham Bell Association. Its role has been changed to providing the latest information to the deaf of the world on how best to cope with their disability.

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3/25/2011 11:09:37 am

Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; can transfer knowledge from teacher to students words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions .Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all man's actions , Do not ridicule the use of words in psychotherapy.
Sigmund Freud, German Psychiatrist　

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3/27/2011 01:25:30 pm

If you wish to succeed, you should use persistence as your good friend, experience as your reference, prudence as your brother and hope as your sentry.

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3/28/2011 06:50:06 pm

At first, two iron wires connected each pair of telephones. Then switchboards brought phone wires into one location. Other inventions - the vacuum tube to amplify sound, and coaxial cables to link long distances on land and under the seas -- greatly expanded phone service. Transistors replaced the old vacuum tubes, and by the 1960s communications satellites eliminated the necessity of landlines. Today, bundles of glass fibers carry calls on laser beams of light.

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8/2/2011 07:33:32 pm

Transistors replaced the old vacuum tubes, and by the 1960s communications satellites eliminated the necessity of landlines. Today

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