Building Services Contractors

El presidente Patrick Lee-Lo

Spouting his union-friendly lines following a group hug with his mates at the SFWU, Paddy’s describing the enormous increase in pay of 35c an hour for his BSC members’ workers as a “sensible and workable” resolution. Sounds like a win.

Paddy’s union mates are chuffed that they’ve tucked more dosh out of BSC member companies as they are nothing but capitalist pigs out to oppress the working class.

But here’s the rub for El Presidente. The BSC is controlled by large foreign cleaning companies who dislike disturbances to the apple cart – and that’s exactly what’s coming down the line in the form of Simon Bridges changes to Part 6A of the Employment Relations Act.

No wonder he’s hitting out at the Government as the BSC tries to protect these overseas companies from Government moves to introduce a fairer and more even playing field – a notion scum bag unions shudder with fear at the very thought of.  Read more »

El Presidente Patrick Lee-Lo must have had a tickle up from his union mates at the CTU.

See Paddy fired off a press release this morning boasting about paying cleaning workers $14.10 per hour (a whopping 35c more per hour or $2.80 more for an 8 hour day) but then hit out at the Government urging them to “reconsider proposed amendments to Part 6A of the Employment Relations Act”.

Low and behold a couple of hours later the CTU pumped out a media release saying they’re “welcoming the statement from the BSC, urging the Government to reconsider the proposed amendments to Part 6A of the employment”. Some sucky sucky going on there.  Read more »

Yesterday I blogged about Patrick Lee-lo and his junket and posted a photograph.

That evening I received a letter attempting to get me to take it down claiming copyright.

Letter from InCleanMag

Unfortunately for Ms Taranto a snarky and overly legalised letter to me doesn’t really work.  Read more »

Via the Fish Gang tip-line

Patrick Lee-Lo. Photo: Kim Taranto, InCleanMag

Scumbag unions must be getting a bit worried. First there’s a growing movement to get rid of Section 97, then there’s the groundswell to ditch Part 6A of the Employment Relations Act as well.

Good I say.  It’s about time Simon Bridges HTFU and gives the unions a shellacking.  Read more »

Via the tip-line

I’m no fan of the union-like cartel that comes in the form of the Building & Services Contractors. I’ve posted on their El President Patrick Lee-Lo a number of times.

Thanks to the tip-line, members of the ‘FISH GANG’ are looking at calling a special meeting seeking to dissolve the Society. Good job I say.

Spotless Facility Services (NZ) have to most to gain by saying ‘yeah, nah’ to keeping the BSC going. You see those Aussie directors have been asking questions about what they get for the $20,000 a year membership spanking.  Read more »

Well it’s been a while, but once again out of the shadows the BSC’s El Presidente Patrick Lee-Lo has emerged.

I’ve called out the BSC for being some dodgy union rort that does little for its membership and breaks its own Society rules. So did Rodney Hide.

Now we have a picture of the BSC Fish Gang in all their glory.

These are the people that oversee the tucking of $20k membership fees,  who allow the extravagant junkets by Lee-Ho and his side-kick Marja Verkerk, while conveniently forgetting about the blatant breach of Rule #19.

A bit of sunlight is a good detergent, so some of these BSC Council members will be getting some exposure.

Lee-Lo claims “the BSC has lobbied strongly on Part 6A”. Mmm lets see about that. What’s the bet there’s a record of the correspondence received by Ministers from Lee-Lo and the BSC over the past few years. I wonder what it shows.

Put it this way, there’s more action from the tumbleweeds below than from the BSC. All will be revealed.

Regular readers might be wondering what ever happened to the head of the union like cartel the BSC, El –Presidente Patrick Lee-Lo.

Let’s recap. The BSC is meant to be a representative organisation, but just like union scum, its staff trough it up around the world on junkets, while it’s sap members are tucked for $20k a year in membership fees.  Read more »

Union like cartels are all alike, and the Building Services Contractors aka BSC is no different.

El Presidente Patrick Lee-Lo now has a wee problem on his hands, after abusing his members,  calling them out as “the fish-gang” and thinking they would go away so that he keeps control over  the $1.8 million BSC slush fund for more extravagant junkets.

But when there’s millions of dollars bobbing around in a little bank account it doesn’t take long for the sharks to smell blood.

The tip-line continues to provide a rich source of discontent from BSC members, as they find business tough going and see a share of $1.8 million as a potential life-line.  Read more »

It’s been a week or two since El Presidente Patrick Lee-Lo has been mentioned. He might have thought the pain was all over.

As seen here first Patrick Lee-Lo is taking another one in the chook. Anyone looking for new franchising opportunities will see the Franchise Association giving him another good shellacking.

They also give Paddy’s members another reason to exit the BSC cartel again highlighting Joyce’s changes to Government procurement which now gives NZ suppliers a full and fair chance at government contracts. Why pay $20,000 in membership fees when the cartel is falling apart?  Read more »

The tip-line continues to provide a wealth of tit-bits about EL Presidente Patrick Lee-Lo and the dodgy union like BSC cartel.

Seems there’s only 39 odd members of the BSC, each getting tucked for $20k membership fees each year. Let’s say they are all so fed up with Paddy (and Marja Verkerk) that they wind up the association.  As a result of the $1.8 million cash pile the BSC is sitting on, those 39 odd members are in for a nice fat $46,000 wind-fall.

Aside from the nasty SFWU being horrified that their card carrying El Presidente has allowed Labour’s secret political slush fund to disappear, Paddy would probably be laughing as his company ToTal Property Services tucks into its $46,000 share.

Not sure his hard-working cleaners would be as keen. See  Paddy is happy to pay his cleaners $14-$16 an hour….a long way short of the “living wage” the SFWU is lobbying for?  Read more »