Plucky Team Of Fleet Employees Won’t Be Beaten By Aggressive Landlord

April 18, 2011 - PRLog -- Norango employees are today mounting a 24-hour sit-in after their building’s landlord switched off their ability to answers phones, the backbone of their business, following a dispute due to United Business Centres (Management) Ltd. going into liquidation.
The situation came to a head at 6.45am this today when two men from the buildings new operator, United Business Centres (Midlands) Ltd., walked into the office manned by a lone female employee who was told, “You’d better get out.  We’re going to switch the phones off.”  Shortly after, the phone system was down, crippling Norango’s ability to pick up their customer’s calls.
Over 250 companies across the UK are looked after by the team at Norango via their call answering service or telephone systems, some of which are charities including Missing People.  The services which Norango provide their customers can be business critical.
The plucky team of nine employees have now barricaded themselves into their offices by pushing filing cabinets up against the door, saying they refuse to be bullied by their landlord.  Last week they were subjected to threats of physical removal by United Business Centres, being told by the Managing Director himself that ‘he can’t be held responsible for their safety’.  The police were called for support immediately.
Norango’s immediate priority is getting their phone lines back up so they can answer calls for their customers.  BT has been supportive throughout the morning, as the case has been escalated because of the threats to the Norango staff and are pulling out all the stops to install lines into Norango’s new premises weeks ahead of schedule.  In the meantime a banner hangs on Norango’s office window in Fleet saying ‘Help save our jobs’.
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