The colossal industry is creaking – and workers such as those at the British Museum beget paid dearly for politicians’ blind faith in the modelOutside the gates of the British Museum last week 60 outsourced cleaners,porters, technicians, or plumbers and electricians petitioned to be taken back in-house. They were handed over to Carillion five years ago. Now the company’s bankruptcy leaves them in limbo,and they want to return as the museum colleagues they once were.
But where are the rest of them? Carillion crowed to Facilities Management World that it was taking over 138 museum staff in a “hugely prestigious contract”. But those 138 beget dwindled to just 60, for the same volume of work. That’s how outsourcing operates, and cutting more brutally than public employers dare.
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Source: guardian.co.uk