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• A scathing attack has been launched on RTITB Services by Bill Morris, general secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union following his resignation from the new commercial training company.
"The board of RTITB Services is no longer serving the interests of the industry," he says. "It is run by people who speak for no-one in the industry."
He accuses the board of "destroying a lot of the expertise, good will and professionalism" built up over the years. And says: "I was not prepared to be part of that destruction."
Morris is now writing to the Department of Trade and Industry asking for a public inquiry into the way the assets of the former training board were transferred to the private sector.
RTITB Services deputy chairman Ken Rogers refutes Morris's allegations of lack of industry representation. "There are one or two representatives of training groups at RTITB Services," he says, "but otherwise they are members of the industry."
He concedes that there have been staff problems. since the old training board was reconstituted.