CIPD - A Challenge

As predicted previously the CIPD are falling to investigate UPS's 3 members of the CIPD. That is the 3 members that were confirmed as per 3 letters from the CIPD.

• My initial paperwork was lost
• 2 of the members became non-members
• The complaint procedure changed
• But after my initial complaint
• It has taken 5 months to reach this stage
• 316268-1333394592
• 318858-1334610392
• 332411-1339504441
• 337662-1340774142
• 347116-1342801535
• 347117-1342801655

Why all the reference numbers? Every time I had to follow up a dead end I received a new reference number


A reminder of the Ethical Standards and Integrity

Members of the CIPD shall:

1.5 apply professional high standards of relevance, accuracy and timeliness in the information and advice they provide to stakeholders.
2.1 establish, maintain and develop business relationships based on confidence, trust and respect

2.2 exhibit and defend professional and personal integrity and honesty at all times

4.2 challenge others if they suspect unlawful or unethical conduct or behaviour

4.3 ensure that their professional judgement is not compromised nor could be perceived as being compromised because of bias, or the undue influence of others

I have appealed against the decision not to investigate, but I'm guessing the outcome.

Mr Mike Kelly, the challenge is for you to follow your own code of professional conduct.

Dear Marianne

A number of items for Mr Mike Kelly to look at before he decides not to investigate Lisa Bradshaw.

• My first grievance was outside your 12 month time period
• If you had wished to see a copy, as per my e-mail, I could have sent it.
• You state hearsay, for my evidence. I sent you copies of e-mails, that is not hearsay.
• If there was insufficient information, as per my e-mail, I could have sent more information.
• You have not mentioned my second grievance.
• Lisa Bradshaw failed to take any action in relation to this.
• I sent you an e-mail stating that I wished Lisa to investigate, again, not hearsay.
• There is more background information here for you http://mikeyvtheworld.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/CIPD

Again, my money is on no investigation, for whatever reason.

Regards

Mike

A Challenge for Unite - The Union

An e-mail from Unite, even though they "lost" my membership paperwork, and I have a union card

Doncaster Tesco drivers need your support

It’s time us ‘plebs’ started fighting back!
I know that all shop stewards feel under pressure, especially as our members are under attack everywhere. It would be good to be part of a good fight against employers who are exploiting our members. In Doncaster, Tesco and Eddie Stobarts are just two employers that are playing a leading role in driving down the wages of its drivers and warehouse workers. Our members in Doncaster have voted for strike action and have already been involved in annoying Stobarts by disrupting one of its sponsored horse race meetings. As these top bosses drink champagne in their private boxes, there is no doubt that they are also discussing other ways that they can make cut and replace workers with cheap labour. It’s not just public school educated Tory ministers who see us as just "plebs". The next step will be to demonstrate outside Tesco stores. With true Yorkshire grit, over 200 drivers in Doncaster will do their bit, but to be really effective we need to be presence felt outside Tesco stores all over the country. We need shop stewards, who have a local Tesco, to let us know that they can spare a few hours to take action in order to support our Tesco members. We can all spare a few hours, the only question is whether we are prepared to have a go? If you are prepared to be involved in this campaign, and I hope you all are, then please email me back indicating your local Tesco store and how many people you can organise to go with you – don’t worry if it’s just you, we will find others to join you. This type of action has to be the future if we are to defend our members against the constant attacks they are under. If we do this right, it will send a powerful message not only to Tesco and Stobarts, but to other employers who think they can treat workers this way.
Please respond to me via email at paul.davies@unitetheunion.org and copy in Trevor Cheetham on lynncheetham@yahoo.co.uk
Please also take a moment to forward this email on to your colleagues.
Thanks
Paul Davies
Unite Logistics Sector National Organiser

Albert/ Roger

The challenge is........put your money where your mouth is.
Defend your UPS members.
It might increase your membership if you actually do something

I'm the best

Top driver and trainer extraordinaire, Steve O'Donnell cannot be expected to be able to train his employees correctly if he doesn't know the laws. He might be able to recite the 340 methods backwards parrott fashion or the 10 point safety commentary or the 5 space and visibility habits, with their key phrases, how's and why's, but he can't put them into prctice. Just like Rob Burrows, no that's not true. Rob Burrows couldn't recite them, let alone follow them.

It's not as if he was busy, 33 delivery stops, that's about 3 hours work for a competant UPS driver, and he was local to the Centre.

Talking of Centre's that reminds me........

Unite-The Union

Considering the content of this circular from last year, you would have thought that National Convenor Albert Graham, mentioned above and Richard Bedford, see below, might have taken a little more interest in the Health and Safety (Physical and Mental) issues that I was raising. Add to that the tachograph and working time issues, wouldn't that give the answer of

The most accident prone region in UPS?

Richard Bedford
Regional Industrial Organiser
UNITE the Union
North East, Yorks & Humber
55 Call Lane, Leeds, LS1 7BW
01132364830
http://www.unitetheunion.org/regions/north_east_yorkshire_and_humb.aspx

Which reminds me of something else I might have.

Fray Bentos

Yes!!!, Uruguay

Welcome

A few bits on Uruguay.

The etymology of the Uruguay River, coming from the Guaraní language, is uncertain, but the official meaning is "river of painted birds".

An estimated 88% of the population is of European descent. With an area of approximately 176,000 square kilometres (68,000 sq mi), Uruguay is the second-smallest nation in South America by area, after Suriname.

The only documented inhabitants of Uruguay before European colonization of the area were the Charrúa, a small tribe driven south by the Guaraní of Paraguay.

I'm amazed its the 2nd smallest country in Aouth America 

PM Daily

People Management is the online magazine for the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.
Published on behalf of the CIPD by Haymarket Media Group, 174 Hammersmith Road, London, W6 7JP

Too often, organisations find they are unable to drive value from employee evaluations due to a lack of participation or a poor process that fails to gather the right information. Furthermore, the administrative burden of the process can be overwhelming for HR and managers. Many companies across the UK and around the world are modernizing their evaluation process by moving to an online system. An easy to use, web-based system can dramatically simplify the process and increase the value of employee evaluations as part of an overall talent management strategy.

  Ah, yes. How many times did Steve O'Donnell fraudlently complete my employee evaluations as being completed.

Answers on a postcard to the usual address

John Connor

No not John Connor, John Connor the author.
Nearing the end of his trilogy of Karen Sharpe books, what? there's five? I know but everything's a trilogy these days.

If you like Rankin, as I do, and you're from Yorkshire, as I am, then I'm pretty sure you'll enjoy this series of books. Dewsbury even gets a mention in one of them. The books are generally set in and around Wet Yorkshire so I recognise most of the areas that get  mention.

John Connor

The author was a barrister with the Crown Prosecution Service, based in West Yorkshire and handling serious crime in the north of England. During 14 years with the CPS he has been involved in the prosecution of over 40 homicide cases, many undercover drugs enquiries and massive child abuse investigations. He divides his time between West Yorkshire and the family home in Brussels, where he is married with two children.

Phoenix

Introducing a striking series character manipulative, tough, headstrong and often emotionally cold who is damaged by a past she can never escape from but which she won't face up to. Detective Constable Karen Sharpe is intrigued by Fiona Mitchell, drug addict and informant. When the novel opens she and her partner Phil Leach are with Fiona in a West Yorkshire pub. Karen is attracted to Phil and likes Fiona but her judgement is not to be trusted; it is April 8 and Karen is drunk. The date holds a special significance for her; one she tries to blot out. But even in her drink sodden brain, a secret buried for years is fighting its way out. When the call comes through the following morning that Phil and Fiona have been found dead, murdered, she is too hung over to take it all in. She hopes it is a professional hit connected to the two drug dealers they have been investigating, but fears that it is connected to a past she shares with no one.

Playroom
On her thirteenth birthday the daughter of a Bradford Judge is kidnapped in West Yorkshire, sparking Operation Shade - a massive fifty detective investigation working against the clock to try to locate and save her. Knowing the chances of Sophie Kenyon surviving diminish dramatically after the first twenty-four hours, Detective Chief Superintendent John Munro begins to crack under the pressure of holding together an enquiry swamped with leads. Meanwhile, left off Shade because of her past encounters with Munro, DC Karen Sharpe is pursuing her own single handed enquiry into historic child abuse allegations. Twenty three year old Pamela Mathews says a local MP raped her ten years before. The task of finding corroboration looks hopeless, but Sharpe keeps at it. Anything rather than face up to her own tangled personal life. She lives with a lawyer she doesn't love and is trying to care for a child who thinks she is her Aunt. The truth is more complex and frightening, leading back to still unresolved events from a year before when her ex drug squad boss was shot dead in an incident most of West Yorkshire Police thinks she is to blame for.
A Child's game

Friday 31 December 1999. In the early hours of the morning in a luxury central Leeds penthouse, masked intruders douse a terrified victim with petrol, set him alight and throw him burning from the fifteenth floor roof garden; a human torch. DS Pete Bains is night duty CID at Milgarth when the call comes in. The body is quickly identified as Nicholas Hanley, a wealthy local property developer. Bains' attempts to pull together an enquiry stall when he cannot locate the victim's lover and next of kin, Anna Hart. Unknown to him Hart is only five miles away, but the nightmare she has been sucked into has catapulted her into a world of danger and horror unlike anything she has ever had to cope with. She was meant to be taking her 11 year old daughter on a trip to see in the new millennium. But instead of delivering a surprise visit to a Caribbean paradise, Hanley's plans bring brutal violence and danger to Anna as the real secret of his business success explodes in her face and both she and her daughter are kidnapped at gunpoint. But finding her isn't Bains' only problem. Special Branch are looking for DC Karen Sharpe. Sharpe and Bains have a bitter history. Now she has disappeared for real. Bains would like to keep it that way, but Sharpe has a nasty surprise for him. As the day progresses he is forced to re-evaluate everything he knows about her. If Karen cannot pull her shattered personality together the last day of the millennium will be the last day of her life.

Falling

Terror is only a footstep away... DC Karen Sharpe is on an emotional precipice. A year and a half ago she was the victim of a terrifying crime. Desperately trying to shelter from its effects she has been working simple fraud and theft cases in West Yorkshire CID. But the brutal murder of a young pregnant woman threatens the precarious wall she has built around herself. Drafted onto the squad to deal with the victim's six-year-old child, Karen finds herself overwhelmed by the devastating nature of the attack. As nightmares from her past start to reoccur, her relationships with those closest to her - her partner, Pete Bains, and her thirteen year old daughter, Mairead - begin to crack under the strain. An illicit relationship with her boss promises excitement and escape - a new beginning without the trappings of past horrors and guilt. But life has a savage lesson in store for her. As West Yorkshire erupts in a summer of explosive race riots, events tip Karen into the depths of the very world she has been fleeing.

Unsafe

On the day Karen Sharpe is promoted to Detective Sergeant she loses control and attacks a prisoner she is interrogating. Duly suspended, Karen is investigated and seemingly cleared, but more than a year later the incident still casts a long shadow. When the battered body of a young girl is discovered, it kicks off an inquiry which pushes Karen and a trainee DC, Marcus Roth, too close for comfort, both on and off-duty. The investigation leads to Mary Bradley, currently the carer for a helpless six-year-old boy, Andrew Farrar. As the truth of Mary Bradley's violent past emerges, the inquiry becomes a race against time before Andrew becomes just another one of her child victims. Meanwhile, with the case holding more and more personal resonance for Karen, Marcus discovers that when threatened she has a tendency to ignore the rule book and act on instinct. Before the scores are finally settled Marcus will be wondering whether Karen's legitimate world and Mary Bradley's illegitimate one are really any different...

Argentina

Welcome aboard Argentina

Can we swap a World Cup win for the Malvinas?

It is the eighth-largest country in the world by land area and the largest among Spanish-speaking nations

I was going to say that I've always loved that fact that there's a place called Fray Bentos which I thought was in Argentina......Wrong.

Fray Bentos, the capital of the Río Negro Department of western Uruguay, is a port on the Uruguay River. It is close to the border with Argentina and about 160 kilometres (99 mi) due north of Buenos Aires, and 309 kilometres (192 mi) north-west from Montevideo, Uruguay's capital.

History

The town was originally founded as 'Villa Independencia' by Decree of 16 April 1859. It became capital of the Department of Río Negro on 7 July 1860 by the Act of Ley Nº 1.475 and its status was elevated to "Ciudad" (city) on 16 July 1900 by the Act of Ley Nº 2.656. Its current name, meaning "Friar Benedict", is derived from a reclusive priest. Historically, Fray Bentos' main industry has been meat processing. An industrial plant owned by the Societe de Fray Bentos Giebert & Cie., the Liebig Extract of Meat Company, was founded here in 1863. It was closed in 1979, after 117 years in operation. A local history museum opened on the site in March 2005.
Fray Bentos was the location of the tragic accident of Austral Flight 2553, where 74 people were killed (69 passengers and 5 crew) on October 10, 1997.

In 2011 Fray Bentos had a population of 24,406.

In 1899 a company called "Anglo" began making corned beef there, which was sold as "Fray Bentos Corned Beef" in the UK. Fifty years later the Fray Bentos company diversified into soups, meatballs and tinned fruit. During the 1990s the focus shifted to pies and puddings and Fray Bentos were taken over by the Campbell Soup Company, however, in 2006, 'Campbells UK' was acquired by Premier Foods. In 2008, Brazilian-owned Marfrig Group announced the reopening of the Liebig factory and the export of meat products, though at a lower capacity than the original factory.

CIPD Update

I was going to give you an update on the CIPD, but it seems that they're blocking my e-mails.
Both e-mails were returned last night.

Maybe that's the update.


I get a daily e-mail from CIPD, it usually has integrity & standards mentioned in it somewhere,

i.e.

The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) is the world's largest Chartered HR and development professional body, setting global standards for best practice in HR. With over 135,000 members across 120 countries, the CIPD is focused on supporting and developing those responsible for the management and development of people within organisations.

Lee Child

From another of my favourite authors.

Just a quick note, about four things:

First, THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH for making my new book A WANTED MAN a success right from publication day. It's my 17th book, but the thrill never gets old. It has sold very well, and I sincerely hope you have enjoyed it. And thanks for coming out to meet me on the road.

And second...I have started work on next year's installment, titled "Never Go Back" Reacher finally makes it to Virginia and meets Susan Turner...but as you might imagine, he also runs into a world of trouble there. Let's hope he survives.

Tasha Alexander	Andrew Grant

And third, I have a book recommendation for you: "Death in the Floating City" by Tasha Alexander. Now, it's a little awkward for me to recommend Tasha's books, because full disclosure she's now my sister-in-law. But...I was a fan long before she ever laid eyes on my brother.

I read her first book years ago, as a judge for a first novel award, and I have followed her ever since. "Death in the Floating City" is her latest and best. It comes out in a couple of weeks. Her series is historical and aristocratic (better than Downton Abbey) but also deep and smart and surprisingly tough and edgy. Highly recommended by me you should pre-order it now at: TashaAlexander.com

And fourth, about the aforementioned brother: Andrew Grant's third David Trevellyan thriller "More Harm Than Good" is finally available. Trevellyan is a likable guy, but you can't mess with him. A bit like Andrew himself, really. Serious hard core thrills available at: AndrewGrantBooks.com

And again, thank you for making "A Wanted Man" such a happy experience for me.

Best always,

Lee Child