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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet
BT have shed 1/5th of their staff in a bid to get profitable and still have a massive pension deficit to deal with. It should be noted that while the bonuses at the top are a big headline maker they are performance related and 10s of thousands of BT staff received performance related bonuses.
A lot of employees aren't getting big payrises this year. Sadly the public sector and ex-public sector are, as ever, keen to go whine to the unions and go on strike.
No they aren't justified to go on strike. There are very few reasons to go on strike. If they think they're worth more money, perks, benefits and pension rewards than they are getting at BT they can go work elsewhere.
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I agree with the first part of your post but Ive never understood the mentality behind statements like the last sentence. Where else would they work doing the job that they are trained to do? If workers and the unions didnt push for better pay etc do you just think management would just give a pay rise every year?
Im making a very big assumption here and
theres no offence whatsoever intended but I think I read that you fall in to the high tax bracket so maybe you dont have the same worries etc that the BT workers have and unless you work at BT how could you know that there are very few reasons to go on strike? You obviously hate unions (I dont know if thats politically motivated) and probably dont have the need to be in one but they have always done right by me and they are there to stick up for the workers so they dont get trampled on.
Im not attacking you I just dont understand comments like that