Already Tory controlled Hounslow Council have sent out redundancy notices to thousands of council employees.
The following letter was sent from Michael Frater Interim Chief Executive, Civic Centre, Lampton Road, Hounslow, TW3 4DN.

REDUNDANCY VULNERABILITY & ARRANGEMENTS FOR ENHANCED VOLUNTARY REDUNDANCY

You will be aware that the council, along with all public services, will face significant budget pressures over the next four years. Local authorities have been advised by the Government that their budgets are likely to be reduced by over a quater in that period.

Here in Hounslow our budgets will reduce throughout the four year period, so we do not have to make all the savings at once, but we do need to start now to ensure that our budget is legal, we plan for the changes & we minimise the effect on jobs & services.

In the next financial year 2011/12, we will have to make savings that could be as much as 10% of our budget. Members have not yet decided where those savings will be made, although it is becoming increasingly clear that some job losses & changes of terms & conditions of service cannot be avoided.

The purpose of this letter, “WHICH IS BEING SENT TO ALL STAFF”, is to let you know that:-

:Because of the reduction in the overall number of posts in the council, your post could be deleted & you are therefore vulnerable to redundancy.
:Your duties could be changed.
:Your terms & conditions of service could be subject to change.

(COMMENT) This is a letter from a wanker who receives £310,000/£316,000 per annum, so why not save a few thousand pounds and get rid of this bastard Michael Fratner.

Have employees from other local authorities received similar letters yet? If so have any of them gotten together with community activists to build a serious opposition to both the cuts to jobs & services, if not why the fuck not?

Patrick – London Class War