Former Council leader hits out at council

Allen Brett

Former council leader Allen Brett has hit out at Rochdale Council over their handling of the pay and grading review. Mr Brett says the intention of the review was to improve efficiency, to make sure people were properly rewarded and to help the low paid, but instead the result has seen staff morale plummet.

Mr Brett asks if “the inmates have finally taken over the asylum?”!

The Lib Dem cabinet members have also come under fire from Mr Brett; he suggests they may intend to appoint themselves a “pool of secretaries for their new £100,000 office suite at new lower salaries.”

Rochdale Online understands that the Council has issued a rebuttal of this suggestion by Mr Brett but has only sent the rebuttal to the local paper for publication Wednesday. In line with the stated policy of the council communications manager, the council is acting like a PR agency - instead of the communications channel it should be - and council communications staff are, again, attempting to manipulate the media by giving advance news to one media organisation to publish before releasing this information to readers of other publications.