Petitioners aim to bury tribunal into airport firefighters’ strike
Friday 9th October 2009, 1:00PM BST.
DEPUTY Jan Kuttelwascher will lead a petition to overturn the decision to hold a tribunal of inquiry into the airport firefighters’ dispute.
The announcement came on the same day that the Royal Court published the names of those appointed to sit on it.
The States decided on 16 July to go ahead with a tribunal, which would investigate the circumstances leading up to and surrounding the airport firefighters’ strike during a bank holiday weekend in May.
It could cost more than £250,000.
Deputy Kuttelwascher (pictured) said the requete, signed by seven deputies, was aimed at stopping the tribunal in its tracks.
‘I want to decommission it. It is an unmanageable cost at a quarter of a million pounds and really we don’t know what it will cost. Whatever the outcome is, it won’t make any difference – the Public Sector Remuneration Committee have already resigned,’ he said.
Deputy Kuttelwascher said that it was not worth the money, which could be better used elsewhere.
‘It could be used to pay for a disability officer for four years.’
He said the requete had a good chance of success and it had been easy to get the signatures.
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Excellent! Finally a states member with a bit of sense! £250K on a tribunal? Whatever next… £81mio on a bit of tarmac at the airport?
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your right with what your saying greg. The only concern that I have is the public will not get the answers that they so desrve and the fact that the drop in fire cover in may was solely down to the negligance of the psrc committee’s.
It’s quite scary the sheer incompetance of the people involved in this fiasco and all I can say is look out may 2010. This process to resolve the ongoing dispute is going no-where and i can almost certainly guarentee that come may we will still be without a resolution to this sorry situation.
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Well here we go on the States “Roundabout” of decision making again!
Who out of the “Requetterants” voted “Pour” before?
However, we must remember that the Fire Fighters issue is not over by any means – only delayed.
So if the enquiry is to be shelved – who is going to report on what happened and how the matter can be resolved.
The Fire Fighters and their Union has the States and the People of Guernsey by the b***s because they can close the airport at any time and for as long as they wish and have proved that they do not care!
This is has to be sorted out and the enquiry that may cost £250k (but equally may cost a lot less) seems to be the only way.
Now that the members have been appointed let us get on with it and not spend days debating the idea before reversing yet another decision!
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