8%+ pay rise ?

[Flashman_]

I have an alert with a jobs agency, which sends me details of various jobs. Over the last few months I have seen loads of royal mail jobs come up, which state the pay rate of £11.50 ph which I assume is the starting rate for OPGs.
However these same adverts are now stating a pay rate of £13.37 ph. They also say OT/sunday rate of £18.58.
Based on the normal OPG pay rate of £12.37 ph that would be an increase of 8%. These later advertised jobs conditions do now seem to be with all the crap that si wants to introduce.
Does this mean that RMG have decided to pay at 8% and impose his changes, taking on new people, so when they sack and rehire they will have replacements for the many of us that will leave? Or are these jobs just to attract strike breakers?

Examples: https://www.totaljobs.com/job/parcel-de ... ob98608362
https://www.totaljobs.com/job/parcel-de ... etailsPage

[datasaint]

Probably to attract agency workers to cover the strike.

[*horcrux*]

£13.37 p/h is what we get now if you factor in the delivery supplement too.

[Clappedoutpostie]

Must have upped it from the original £11.50 they were offering these strike breakers. Speaking of which has anyone seen one yet?

[qwerty2]

Must have upped it from the original £11.50 they were offering these strike breakers. Speaking of which has anyone seen one yet?

Strikebreakers?
We’ve one in our office

[Surreypostie]

We have new staff, the larger percentage of them leave when they realise it is not the walk in the park they think. We had a retired police officer come along, he left after a couple of weeks saying he had never worked so hard, he come there looking for an easy job to top up his pension. They can advertise all they like, it takes a certain type to stick at it. They cannot replace us all, he fires us all they have no company.

[Clappedoutpostie]

Must have upped it from the original £11.50 they were offering these strike breakers. Speaking of which has anyone seen one yet?

Strikebreakers?
We’ve one in our office

I mean the agency they were trying to source, don’t think they can find anyone as nobody in any of the offices up here has seen any and the offices are on their knees.

[Wolf91]

We have new staff, the larger percentage of them leave when they realise it is not the walk in the park they think. We had a retired police officer come along, he left after a couple of weeks saying he had never worked so hard, he come there looking for an easy job to top up his pension. They can advertise all they like, it takes a certain type to stick at it. They cannot replace us all, he fires us all they have no company.

Well said. The higher echelons would do well to remember that. Most can’t even stick out the job, let alone get efficient and good at it; stick it out day in day out… year in year out.
It’s almost like, a crazy thought I know, you should look after your workforce….
And they will look after you.