- October 6, 2022
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Economy
The UK’s main communications union has called out “hypocrisy, greed and arrogance” among executives on UK boards as hundreds of emergency call operators join a strike.
Meanwhile, the Royal College of Nursing launched “the biggest strike ballot in its 106-year history”, the latest in a wave of industrial disputes triggered by a cost of living squeeze.
The Communication Workers Union on behalf of BT staff is protesting against a £1,500 pay rise given to 58,000 front line workers in April, equating to between 3 and 8 per cent depending on base salaries and averaging at a 4.8 per cent increase to remuneration.
More than 500 operators will join the strikes. The union had previously exempted staff handling emergency 999 calls from taking industrial action, but has since changed its position.
“The chief executive and the board of BT need to get in the room, get their hands dirty and start negotiating,” Dave Ward, CWU general secretary, told Sky…
