Darwen's biggest employers are backing Jake Berry's 100 jobs plan (From Lancashire Telegraph)

Good news...

Excellent news and great initiative! Way to go WEC and Crown Paints!

Blackburn & Darwen need more community ownership for programs like this to expand and thrive - we can help to that end by reclaiming one of the other huge employers of the Borough, Blackburn Rovers!

This is why you all need to please go see the latest Blackburn Football Charitable Fund's blog entry!

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It is a Question and Answer session addressing the most prevalent of the concerns raised in the last 48 hours about the Supporters-based Fund initiative to buy back the Club!

It most certainly can be done! Go and have a look! Give Venkys the option of selling by providing a ready made buyer, that will bring Rovers back to community, local ownership, and be a positive driving force for the local economy once more!!

Admirable as his intentions are, it would be interesting to know how many jobs Mr Berry has created already.
The apprenticeships at WEC are an ongoing growth policy.
The concept of apprenticeships at Crown were developed after discussions with the GMB Union and senior management two years ago with concerns over natuaral job losses and an aging workforce. FACT

What the LT fails to report is the actions Mr Berry intends to take to create apprenticeships where they did not previously exist - which would be a story of much more significance.
Since Mr Berry has been elected, we have seen -

* Job losses at Bglobal , at Brookhouse Composites, at Heritage - to name only a few.

* The closure of ELW and impending closure of Hollins Paper Mill.

* The impending closure of major employers in our neighbouring Blackburn.

What would be sensational would be Mr Berry's blueprint for the area, and a mandate to lobby industry to re-locate here creating job growth and opportunities.
What would be more sensational would be Mr Berry lobbying government on manufacturing policy and the crippling cuts to BwDC budget.
After all, Mr Berry is the Private Secretary to the Minister of Communities and Local Government.

So come on Mr Berry, words, and sensationalised stories in the local paper may impress the few, but most would love to see a major employer announcing that he has located to Darwen on Jake Berry's recommendation.

good idea, but why so biased to over24's?
should be interesting watching people clamber all over each other to a job.may i suggest t.v. cameras for the upcoming stampede?

It's great news and well done Jake Berry for even taking an interest.

Apprentices aside, Crown Paints have used agencies for years for temporary workers. And many of those workers don't stand a chance because some of the permanent staff undermine them at every opportunity. Crown is a good employer but they need to get rid of some of the idle deadwood that make the temps life hard work by not talking to them, not helping them and even going so far as to sabotage their work so that temps in general are looked down on so that they can big themselves up. Some even resent the temps 'stealing' their overtime.

Yeah, Uncle Fester, I'm on about you, ya bald-headed d!ck. And that other chump on your shift, N**** with the petty "that's my truck, boo-hoo" everyday. And the poisoned dwarf who needs to learn to speak English properly so that people know what they're doing.

happycyclist wrote:
It's great news and well done Jake Berry for even taking an interest.

Apprentices aside, Crown Paints have used agencies for years for temporary workers. And many of those workers don't stand a chance because some of the permanent staff undermine them at every opportunity. Crown is a good employer but they need to get rid of some of the idle deadwood that make the temps life hard work by not talking to them, not helping them and even going so far as to sabotage their work so that temps in general are looked down on so that they can big themselves up. Some even resent the temps 'stealing' their overtime.

Yeah, Uncle Fester, I'm on about you, ya bald-headed d!ck. And that other chump on your shift, N**** with the petty "that's my truck, boo-hoo" everyday. And the poisoned dwarf who needs to learn to speak English properly so that people know what they're doing.

Wow (un) Happy, what an insight, agency temps come and go..... it would be easy to fill positions by making agency temps permanent, however Crown recently came up against a situation where people in Warrington were faced with a redundancy situation.
Hence, all the workers there had a choice, redundancy, transfer of employment to a local company, or redeployment in Darwen.
If the agency temps. (of which there are very few at the moment) had been offered permanent employment 6 months ago, then the loyal employees wishing to remain with the company would have lost their jobs.
As for your scathing attack on particular persons, I am aware of the incident you speak of.
I am also aware of the outcome and the feelings of the (vast majority) of right thinking and decent workers who were appalled by it.
This happened a number of years ago.
These days overtime is at a premium, with options open to management during peak periods which includes a pro-active approach by the management, unions and the workforce to amend shift patterns.
As a somewhat seasonal employer, some requirement for temporary employment, will however always exist.
Crown Paints has a zero tolerance approach to intimidating behaviour, as a worker recently discovered to their cost.

Anybody who tries to do something positive on the jobs front gets my support unless of course your on the public sector rip-off gravy train!

louderfasterlonger wrote:

happycyclist wrote:
It's great news and well done Jake Berry for even taking an interest.

Apprentices aside, Crown Paints have used agencies for years for temporary workers. And many of those workers don't stand a chance because some of the permanent staff undermine them at every opportunity. Crown is a good employer but they need to get rid of some of the idle deadwood that make the temps life hard work by not talking to them, not helping them and even going so far as to sabotage their work so that temps in general are looked down on so that they can big themselves up. Some even resent the temps 'stealing' their overtime.

Yeah, Uncle Fester, I'm on about you, ya bald-headed d!ck. And that other chump on your shift, N**** with the petty "that's my truck, boo-hoo" everyday. And the poisoned dwarf who needs to learn to speak English properly so that people know what they're doing.

Wow (un) Happy, what an insight, agency temps come and go..... it would be easy to fill positions by making agency temps permanent, however Crown recently came up against a situation where people in Warrington were faced with a redundancy situation.
Hence, all the workers there had a choice, redundancy, transfer of employment to a local company, or redeployment in Darwen.
If the agency temps. (of which there are very few at the moment) had been offered permanent employment 6 months ago, then the loyal employees wishing to remain with the company would have lost their jobs.
As for your scathing attack on particular persons, I am aware of the incident you speak of.
I am also aware of the outcome and the feelings of the (vast majority) of right thinking and decent workers who were appalled by it.
This happened a number of years ago.
These days overtime is at a premium, with options open to management during peak periods which includes a pro-active approach by the management, unions and the workforce to amend shift patterns.
As a somewhat seasonal employer, some requirement for temporary employment, will however always exist.
Crown Paints has a zero tolerance approach to intimidating behaviour, as a worker recently discovered to their cost.

Wow Happy. You have just described nearly every employer I have ever worked for.

Does every company have a Uncle fester and a poison dwarf?

“That, as well as the £1,500 Government grant on offer to firms that take on apprentices, should encourage peo-ple to get on board.”
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Hope it isn't the wrong people who get on board!! You know,the create a job for the money type.

What ever happened to Pretek and their 400 jobs to be created by 2012?

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happycyclist wrote:
It's great news and well done Jake Berry for even taking an interest.

Apprentices aside, Crown Paints have used agencies for years for temporary workers. And many of those workers don't stand a chance because some of the permanent staff undermine them at every opportunity. Crown is a good employer but they need to get rid of some of the idle deadwood that make the temps life hard work by not talking to them, not helping them and even going so far as to sabotage their work so that temps in general are looked down on so that they can big themselves up. Some even resent the temps 'stealing' their overtime.

Yeah, Uncle Fester, I'm on about you, ya bald-headed d!ck. And that other chump on your shift, N**** with the petty "that's my truck, boo-hoo" everyday. And the poisoned dwarf who needs to learn to speak English properly so that people know what they're doing.

So sit at home and do nothing again just like your used to doing other than come on here all day and every day attacking anything and everything because you feel the world owes you a living.
You constantly bleet on like your the only one that has any kind of intelligence yet hav'nt got the balls to tell uncle fester to his face to go f**k his self as it is not his truck at all.
All you did is moan cos you thought you were better than everyone else and that you thought you should be the M.D.
Get over it and stop crying.

louderfasterlonger wrote:

happycyclist wrote:
It's great news and well done Jake Berry for even taking an interest.

Apprentices aside, Crown Paints have used agencies for years for temporary workers. And many of those workers don't stand a chance because some of the permanent staff undermine them at every opportunity. Crown is a good employer but they need to get rid of some of the idle deadwood that make the temps life hard work by not talking to them, not helping them and even going so far as to sabotage their work so that temps in general are looked down on so that they can big themselves up. Some even resent the temps 'stealing' their overtime.

Yeah, Uncle Fester, I'm on about you, ya bald-headed d!ck. And that other chump on your shift, N**** with the petty "that's my truck, boo-hoo" everyday. And the poisoned dwarf who needs to learn to speak English properly so that people know what they're doing.

Wow (un) Happy, what an insight, agency temps come and go..... it would be easy to fill positions by making agency temps permanent, however Crown recently came up against a situation where people in Warrington were faced with a redundancy situation.
Hence, all the workers there had a choice, redundancy, transfer of employment to a local company, or redeployment in Darwen.
If the agency temps. (of which there are very few at the moment) had been offered permanent employment 6 months ago, then the loyal employees wishing to remain with the company would have lost their jobs.
As for your scathing attack on particular persons, I am aware of the incident you speak of.
I am also aware of the outcome and the feelings of the (vast majority) of right thinking and decent workers who were appalled by it.
This happened a number of years ago.
These days overtime is at a premium, with options open to management during peak periods which includes a pro-active approach by the management, unions and the workforce to amend shift patterns.
As a somewhat seasonal employer, some requirement for temporary employment, will however always exist.
Crown Paints has a zero tolerance approach to intimidating behaviour, as a worker recently discovered to their cost.

Crown at warrington are all permanent staff.
And yes we are all out of a job from 6th April as we have all been given our 90 days. Thanks very much Crown???