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20 Comments CherryPie on May 28th 2010

This year the MoD Group Conference was held in the Holiday Inn which was a long trek from the Group hotel. Business started at 9 in the morning and finished at 5.30 in the evening with an hour for lunch. Once again I was on the Standing Orders Committee which ensures the conference [...]

10 Comments CherryPie on May 24th 2010

My actions are my only true belongings.
I cannot escape the consequences of my actions.
My actions are the ground upon which I stand.
Thich Nhat Hanh

18 Comments CherryPie on May 23rd 2010

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We meet in Brighton just after the 6 May general election, but we know that whoever is leading [...]

4 Comments CherryPie on May 16th 2010

The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) has won it’s legal challenge against government plans to cut civil service redundancy payments:

Following a two-day judicial review hearing in the High Court in April, Mr Justice Sales ruled today (10 May) that the previous government acted unlawfully when it introduced, without PCS’s agreement, a [...]

10 Comments CherryPie on May 10th 2010

The soul is indestructible and its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the sun, which, to our eyes, seems to set at night; but it has in reality only gone to diffuse its light elsewhere.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

25 Comments CherryPie on May 7th 2010

Myth 6 “Back-office” functions can be outsourced without impacting on front-line services
REALITY Support functions are just as important as the front-line
In a recent document called “Doing More with Less” the CBI claims that ’sharing back office functions can improve efficiency” and that ‘non-core activities are best provided by the private and third sectors unless [...]

2 Comments CherryPie on Apr 14th 2010

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