Workers at BT are to be balloted over potential strike action after the company declined to meet the unions noon deadline for increasing its pay offer.
The Communications Workers Union last week demanded a 5% pay increase for the 50,000 BT staff it…
Workers at BT are to be balloted over potential strike action after the company declined to meet the unions noon deadline for increasing its pay offer.
The Communications Workers Union last week demanded a 5% pay increase for the 50,000 BT staff it represents, setting a cut-off point of 12 noon today. As the company has only offered a 2% rise and has not responded to the deadline, members will be balloted about whether to strike.
Last week, the unions deputy general secretary Andy Kerr complained of “blatant double standards” after BT announced a £1.2m bonus for chief executive Ian Livingston, among other large director payouts in a year when the group froze pay and made profits of more than £1bn.
“We’re obviously very disappointed that BT has not improved its pay offer of 2% despite their healthy profits this year,” he added. We now have no option than to put the wheels in motion to ballot all appropriate members in BT for strike action, which would be the first action of its kind in over 20 years.”
