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Ethnic Oldham praised
Date published: 25/05/2009
OLDHAM Council is one of the North-West’s best authorities for filling high-earning jobs with members of ethnic minority communities.
The borough came second in a poll by Britain’s general union the GMB to discover the proportion of the highest paid council workers to come from ethnic backgrounds.
Liverpool topped the table with 10 per cent closely followed by Oldham with 7 per cent. Blackpool came bottom with only 1 per cent. Rochdale and Tameside scored 4 per cent and 3 per cent respectively.
Hackney Council topped the national league with 28 per cent of its highest earners coming from ethnic backgrounds.
Kamaljeet Jandu, GMB’s national equality and inclusion officer, said: “GMB believes that employers should reflect the make up of local communities and travel to work areas in their workforces.
“GMB commend those local councils which have achieved this at the highest pay level in their organisations as a commitment to equality and real progress.
“There are lessons here for employers in the public and private sectors who have not acknowledged this and made progress.”
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Yep, don't worry about quality as long as the fools can fulfil politically correct token targets. The thing is, why is it always the worst councils in the country (Hackney, Oldham etc) that fulfil these target figures? I'm amazed not to see Haringey as a prime contender. It's a bit like, why are all the worse and most deprived areas to live in this country often under Labour control?
This poll result wouldn't have anything to do with trying to increase union membership would it? Too big for their boots unions, helped to ruin this country. Now they are promoting further social engineering by the use of quotas. No mention of fitness to actually do the job. In 1997, the unions played more than their part in promoting Labour candidates, to an unparalleled level of incompetence. Look where that got us. Biggest bust ever, with not another boom in sight. Roll on the election!
It’s amazing what positive racism can achieve, well oldham will be the best, they have had years of discriminating against non mulims, you only have to look at the stupid mayoral thing and that’s just one issue.
The council have anounced that they need to shed 850 workers I wonder if any of them are from the Ethnic Minority Community?
the biggest bust ever, would have happened had any political party been in power.and remember that under the tories greed was god so it would probably be worse ,yeh bring on cameron 3 recessions in 15 years under that lot sounds great
Hmmm. Funny how every Labour administration has always left us bust! They've even managed to trash the golden economy, inherited in 1997. Now, we have greed with no God. No coincidence either, that Oldham, after almost 40 years of unbroken Labour control, is also bust, big-time. The dead hand of socialist incompetence has all but buried the town. Nsationally, it can't get any worse.
i could have got the golden economy if i had three goes at it.god left poliltics the day thatcher walked in to number ten.everyone forgets that we live with the effect of thatcher forever everything comes after her .wait to see the mess this pompous idiot creates,yes labour councils are no good
My experience of OMBC leads me to bleieve that some of their employees need crash courses in spoken & written English & customer service. They may be flooding the numbers with all sorts of skin colours, but if they are not able to communicate & work effectively what is the point?
Typical socialist PC claptrap. No emphasis on the quality of the people concerned just having them in place is enough. Stupidity like this is playing into tokenism - don't mind the abilities of the people, just promote a few minority candidates to make the councils look good.
This is not intended as a comment on individuals just leftie stupidity
By Flake @ 25/05/2009 11:40:46
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