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Wage Negotiations

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dids620
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Wage Negotiations

Post by dids620 »

Hi. Can anyone tell me if RM & CWU are currently in talks about our pay rise (if any) for April 2016 and beyond? Thanks
shepherdess
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Re: Wage Negotiations

Post by shepherdess »

Won't be long before we are on the same pay as lidl,Costa,Morrison's with them all putting up the wages to the living wage .
Rommagic
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Re: Wage Negotiations

Post by Rommagic »

They should be talking as April 2016 is not that far away.
minimumstandard
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Re: Wage Negotiations

Post by minimumstandard »

Yes we are approaching talks on Pay but I believe that the CWU will be pushing for a shorter working week.
feduppostie
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Re: Wage Negotiations

Post by feduppostie »

I'm gonna save them the trouble of all those meetings - we won't get a pay rise as we are already paid 'really well for an unskilled job', we will get a shorter working week by taking our paid breaks away, the business and union will decide that to 'in order to facilitate good management of periods of sickness' we won't be paid for the first 3 days sick, seniority will be abolished as it discriminates against those who like to have a job for only 6 months and we don't have to pay a pension or sick pay to BUT we will have a 'really good' bonus scheme that we won't be allowed to know the details of ( but it will be really good) until the time it comes to pay out when we discover we are really all s**t at our jobs and our bonus ( that the union fought tooth and nail for) is 46p and we should be so grateful to the union for securing it our subs will go up

that said they will be in meetings for about a year anyway and we must not ask questions till they are ready to tell us
DB1100
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Re: Wage Negotiations

Post by DB1100 »

feduppostie wrote:I'm gonna save them the trouble of all those meetings - we won't get a pay rise as we are already paid 'really well for an unskilled job', we will get a shorter working week by taking our paid breaks away, the business and union will decide that to 'in order to facilitate good management of periods of sickness' we won't be paid for the first 3 days sick, seniority will be abolished as it discriminates against those who like to have a job for only 6 months and we don't have to pay a pension or sick pay to BUT we will have a 'really good' bonus scheme that we won't be allowed to know the details of ( but it will be really good) until the time it comes to pay out when we discover we are really all s**t at our jobs and our bonus ( that the union fought tooth and nail for) is 46p and we should be so grateful to the union for securing it our subs will go up

that said they will be in meetings for about a year anyway and we must not ask questions till they are ready to tell us
And in the meantime there's some lapsing
For we were soldiers once,and young
wannabeek
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Re: Wage Negotiations

Post by wannabeek »

feduppostie wrote:I'm gonna save them the trouble of all those meetings - we won't get a pay rise as we are already paid 'really well for an unskilled job', we will get a shorter working week by taking our paid breaks away, the business and union will decide that to 'in order to facilitate good management of periods of sickness' we won't be paid for the first 3 days sick, seniority will be abolished as it discriminates against those who like to have a job for only 6 months and we don't have to pay a pension or sick pay to BUT we will have a 'really good' bonus scheme that we won't be allowed to know the details of ( but it will be really good) until the time it comes to pay out when we discover we are really all s**t at our jobs and our bonus ( that the union fought tooth and nail for) is 46p and we should be so grateful to the union for securing it our subs will go up

that said they will be in meetings for about a year anyway and we must not ask questions till they are ready to tell us
There really should be a "like" button on this site. I would have clicked that. Well said.
SpacePhoenix
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Re: Wage Negotiations

Post by SpacePhoenix »

minimumstandard wrote:I believe that the CWU will be pushing for a shorter working week.
No chance of that happening, most MCs and DOs are struggling to clear with the hours they've got now
Glenno
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Re: Wage Negotiations

Post by Glenno »

SpacePhoenix wrote:
minimumstandard wrote:I believe that the CWU will be pushing for a shorter working week.
No chance of that happening, most MCs and DOs are struggling to clear with the hours they've got now
To be honest a SWW only means that you will do the same amount of work in a shorter space of time. struggling now dont need anymore :wave :wave
DB1100
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Re: Wage Negotiations

Post by DB1100 »

Glenno wrote:
SpacePhoenix wrote:
minimumstandard wrote:I believe that the CWU will be pushing for a shorter working week.
No chance of that happening, most MCs and DOs are struggling to clear with the hours they've got now
To be honest a SWW only means that you will do the same amount of work in a shorter space of time. struggling now dont need anymore :wave :wave
Very true Glenno,they will just rerun pegasus or whatever it is and adjust the settings to get a SWW.
For we were soldiers once,and young
daveyeff
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Re: Wage Negotiations

Post by daveyeff »

SpacePhoenix wrote:
minimumstandard wrote:I believe that the CWU will be pushing for a shorter working week.
No chance of that happening, most MCs and DOs are struggling to clear with the hours they've got now
but the mail is dropping isn't it? :Very Happy
daveyeff
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Re: Wage Negotiations

Post by daveyeff »

Glenno wrote:
SpacePhoenix wrote:
minimumstandard wrote:I believe that the CWU will be pushing for a shorter working week.
No chance of that happening, most MCs and DOs are struggling to clear with the hours they've got now
To be honest a SWW only means that you will do the same amount of work in a shorter space of time. struggling now dont need anymore :wave :wave
one way of getting overtime then :Very Happy
Surreypostie
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Re: Wage Negotiations

Post by Surreypostie »

Ofcom reckon we are overpaid, we would only get a SWW if our pay went down, they can keep any SWW if that was to be the case. I don't actually think we will get a rise next year.