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DVLA equal pay hearing April/May 2009

28 April

 

There has also been extensive coverage in the local press on the same basis as that carried by This Is London:  Gender pay gap challenge to DVLA, including:

Andover Advertiser,  Banbury Guardian,  Birmingham Post,  Buckinghamshire Advertiser,  Bucks Herald,  Cambridge News,  Carluke Gazette,  Carrick Today,  Chester Chronicle,  Chester Evening Leader, Chorley Guardian,  Country Times,  Coventry Telegraph,  Crawley Observer,  Crewe Chronicle,  Crosby Herald,  Cumbernauld News,  Daily Echo,  Daventry Today,  Dunstable Today,  Ealing Gazette,  Ellesmere Report,  Evesham Journal,  Falkirk Herald,  Flintshire Chronicle,  Glasgow South and Eastwood Extra,  Harrow Observer,  Hastings Observer, 
Hawick News,  Hillingdon Times,  IC Newcastle,  Lanarkshire Extra,  Leamington Courier,  Lisburn Today,  Liverpool Echo,  London Informer,  Luton Today,  Lythan St Annes, Maghull and Ainstree Star, Market Rasen Mail,  Mid Sussex Times, Mid Ulster Mail, Motherwell Times, North Wales Chronicle,  Peterborough Today,  Portsmouth News,  Ripley and Heanor News, Rugby Today,  Runcorn and Widnes Weekly News,  Rye and  Battle Observer,  Scotsman, Skegness Standard, Solihull News,
South Wales Guardian, Spalding Today, Stourbridge News, Sunderland Echo, Surrey Herald, Sussex Express, Staines News, The Metro, Thurrock Gazette, Warwick Courier, Whitchurch Herald, Worcester News,  Wrexham Chronicle,  Yorkshire Post,  Yorkshire Evening Post.
 

Committee of public accounts report on shared services in DfT 16 December 2008


BBC News Front Page: Efficiency drive to cost £81m

Guardian: Whitehall efficiency drive cost £80m, say MPs

Daily Mail: Cost-cutting computer meant to save £57m left taxpayers with £80m bill after spouting answers in German

Financial Times: Department for Transport IT project panned

Daily Express: 'Experts' Spend £81m To Save Taxpayers £57m

Sky News: Govt 'Savings' Cost Taxpayer £81m

Channel 4 News: Efficiency drive 'leaves £81m bill'

Telegraph: Efficiency drive cost tax payers millions

The Register:  DfT spends £81m to save £57m - Shared services move showed 'stupendous incompetence'
 

DVLA action 29 August 2008 

Coverage includes:

Wales Online: 4,500 DVLA staff strike over pay

BBC News:   DVLA staff strike over 'pay gap' 

The Scotsman: Services hit by DVLA strike

Birmingham Post:  DVLA strike closes Birmingham office

MCA action August bank holiday weekend

As well as numerous television and radio interviews both national and local, the following is a taste of the coverage by the paper press:

BBC News:  Coastguard staff strike over pay
Sky News:  Coastguards On Strike Over Pay
The Guardian:  Safety alert as strike stretches coastguards
Scotland on Sunday:  Coastguards set for 48-hour strike
The Times:  Sea a no-go zone as coastguards strike
The Scotsman:  Coastguard strike 'impacting sea rescue services'
STV TV News:  Two men found in ill-equipped dinghy during coastguard strike
The Express:  Coastguards to strike
Reuters:  Keep out of the water says strike union
GMTV:  Coastguard strike

Strike action 24 April

A selection of the coverage found on the internet:

BBC News - The former Chief Exec of MCA has warned it is in need of urgent reform after years of weak management.

BBC News
Guardian (Q&A)
BBC News
The Times
The Metro
The Argus (no2)
Deeside Piper
North East Chronicle (quoting MCA rep Dave Macbeth)
The Herald
Spenborough Guardian
Sunderland Echo
The Argus
Greenock Telegraph

MCA strike 11 April

A selection of coverage from the most recent MCA strike action.

BBC News
Daily Express
Channel 4 News
Daily Star
The Scotsman
IC Wales
Kent Online
Stornoway Gazette
West County Times
Dorset Echo
This Is Cornwall

DSA strike 25 March

Along with a radio interview by Paul Williams (DfT group president) on BBC West Midlands, there was also press coverage in the following publications:

Essex Gazette
Wigan Today
Lancashire Telegraph

Equal pay in DVLA

The debate over DVLA women's wages:

Government Should Close Pay Gap (IC Wales)

MCA strike 6 March

Along with extensive TV coverage and an interview on BBC Radio 4's 'Today' programme, the strike also received extensive coverage in the national and local press.

BBC National News
Sky News
BBC Northern Ireland
BBC Scotland
The Independent
The Guardian
Telegraph
The Times
Daily Express
Daily Star
The Mirror
The Scotsman
The Herald
The Metro
Shields Gazette
Yorkshire Post
The Herald
Liverpool Daily Post
Ealing Gazette
Liverpool Echo
Hull Daily Mail
South London Press
South Wales Argus
IC Wolverhampton
IC North London
IC Scotland 
 

DFT strike 29 Februrary

In addition to interviews for BBC Wales and HTV, representatives also gave radio interviews including Durham FM, Radio West Midlands, Radio Tees, BBC Radio West Midlands, Swansea Sound, Real Radio and Mercia Radio.

Daily Record
Western Mail
South Wales Evening Post
Southampton Advertiser
Shropshire Star
Southern Daily Echo
Cheshire Online
BBC Wales
Sunderland Echo
Shropshire Star
Doncaster Free Press
Manchester Evening News (no1)
Manchester Evening News (no2)
Yorkshire Evening Post
South Wales Evening Post
Western Mail
Brentford Weekly News
The Scotsman
Maldon and burnham Standard
Elsmeer Port Pioneer
Wigan Today
Sheffield Star