Patrick Lee-Lo

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 »

By now you’ll know I’m no fan of El Presidente Patrick Lee-Lo and his union cartel the Building Services Contractors [BSC].

Only last week he was exposed for complaining about franchises yet operates the Chemwash franchise out of the BSC’s office with his travelling sidekick Marja Verkerk. You may also be surprised at learning Verkerk set up the Carpet Cleaners Association of New Zealand Inc – with the head office… wait for… yes same address as the BSC.

As always the tip-line continues to provide a rich source of new scandals about El Presidente.

Looks like Paddy and Marja set up a new company just before Christmas called the Master Cleaners NZ Ltd. How nice you might say. Hermmm.

Now the BSC’s original name was the Master Cleaners Association of New Zealand Inc. Until they changed the name back in 1993.

Maybe their PR advisers suggested they quietly change the BSC’s name back in an effort to stem members’ growing concern about the level of heat focused on the cartel’s activities?  Read more »

El Presidente Patrick Lee-Lo can now be exposed as a complete hypocrite.

In Tuesday’s Herald Paddy took a shot at the franchising sector, and in a typical union like manner called for the franchise industry to be regulated saying that;

“franchsiees have to either grow their businesses or cut corners to make money”

But hang on a sec El Presidente, doesn’t the BSC operate a franchise operation called CHEMWASH which conveniently has its National Office details as info@bsc.org.nz  and the same PO Box number as the BSC?

BSC contact details on ChemWash website

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Regular readers will have seen the exposure of the union cartel known as the BSC.

They’re under investigation by the Registrar of Incorporated Societies, have tucked members for $20k a year and its boss El Presidente Patrick Lee-Lo likes to take extravagant junkets to exotic locations.

One defining thing about El Presidente is his moustache.

Makes me wonder whether he’s involved in the Moustache Club Paris.  Read more »

It really must be time that the BSC packs up its bags and closes shop.

Looks like El Presidente has offended more people, this time the New Zealand Franchising Association (FANZ). Who are they you ask?

Just a group representing the franchising sector that contributes about $20 billion to New Zealand’s economy and a sector that employs more than 100,000 people.

FANZ gave Paddy a good slap saying in November “his article will surely raise questions amongst franchising companies that are members of the BSC.”

In other words, if you are a franchising company and a member of the BSC that tucks you for $20k a year, think twice about being a member as Patrick clearly doesn’t like franchising companies.

Even in today’s Herald El Presidente slags off the franchising sector.

With the Government’s new procurement policy that treats all suppliers equally and doesn’t discriminate, the BSC cartel is heading the way of the dinosaur. No wonder El Presidente Patrick Lee-Lo is keeping tight lipped about what’s happening to the $1.8m he’s sitting atop of.

But with Labour’s union mouthpiece Darien Fenton now publicly supporting El Presidente the question about where that $1.8m will end up becomes even more intriguing. Has Darien Fenton got a wiff of the wad of cash sitting in the BSC and sees it as a potential slush fund for her beloved Party?