Benefit payments, council tax collection and other services will be hit by striking IT workers at Bradford Metropolitan District Council if a ballot this week goes in favour of action over the terms of a £100m IT outsourcing deal.
Unions are currently balloting 135 IT workers at Bradford Metropolitan District Council over strike action if staff are not given the option of secondment instead of permanent transfer to the selected IT supplier.
In February we exclusively revealed the Metropolitan Police's plans for an IT outsourcing 'megadeal' worth up to £750m. Just as the Bradford row was fizzling out another local authority dispute emerged in Swansea.silicon.com warned of possible...
Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council has chosen BT and Liberata as preferred bidders for a 15-year £300m contract to overhaul the authority's IT, finance, HR and payroll and customer services. The West Midlands council claims the injection of...
Alan Stewart, councillor and spokesman of ICT for the council, told silicon.com: "We have lots of different switchboards and networks but what we need is one state-of-the-art network for the whole of the local authority.
A Metropolitan Police investigation into the missing discs is ongoing and Darling said police have no reason to believe the information has fallen into the "wrong hands". O is for Orange Privacy watchdog the Information Commissioner's Office, the...