Ball firmly in BT’s court as CWU smashes ballot thresholds and demands new talks
CWU members across BT Group have delivered an overwhelming message of disgust and defiance to their bosses, voting by well over nine-to-one to reject real-term pay cuts in every part of the business.
Onerous legal thresholds, designed to make it as hard as possible for workers to withdraw their labour under the UK’s notoriously anti-union employment law, weren’t just exceeded but positively smashed in Openreach and BT.
Ballot Results
CALL CENTRE WORKERS VOTE FOR HISTORIC STRIKE ACTION, ALONGSIDE 30,000 OPENREACH ENGINEERS, AS BT GROUP EMPLOYEES REJECT “WEAK, INSULTING” REAL-TERMS PAY CUT
Inflammatory BT call centre script attacking CWU yet another reason to vote ‘Yes!’ today
Members across BT Voice Services have been advised not to comply with part of an inflammatory management instruction that the union believes represents a direct attempt to demean staff and interfere with a legally constituted industrial action ballot.
No let up for BT bosses as CWU strike ballot enters final countdown
The spotlight the union has been shining on BT Group’s double standards on executive versus staff pay is reaching a new intensity as the first company-wide strike ballot in 35 years enters its final days.
Rank hypocrisy on executive pay laid bare as BT Group industrial action ballot enters final week
BT Group’s double standards on executive versus staff pay have been spectacularly revealed for all to see, with no fewer than three major exposés appearing in the national media in just 24 hours.
Fat Cat bosses at firms facing strikes earn up to 86 times average wage of workers
While Boris Johnson boasts about wanting a high-wage society, the PM insisted staff asking for pay rises to make ends meet would further raise inflation. While millions of workers struggle with the cost of living crisis, Britain’s fatcat bosses have never had it so good. Top executives at firms facing industrial action are taking up to […]
Pay defiance at One Braham as CWU gears up for the ‘biggest union meeting ever!’
A spirited band of CWU London Region activists took the ‘I’M VOTING YES’ message to the very heart of BT-land yesterday, marking the eve of today’s despatch of more than 40,000 industrial action ballot papers to members across BT, Openreach and EE.
Rallying cry for Openreach members ends remarkable week of campaigning
Members across Openreach have delivered the clearest possible indication of their willingness to fight for a decent cost of living pay rise, with no fewer than 9.000 tuning in live to an online CWU mass meeting Thursday night.
You can’t airbrush the truth, CWU tells BT, as crass attempt to silence pay dissent in Birmingham backfires
BT Group’s desperation to hide the strength of the CWU’s fightback against the imposition of real-term pay cuts by a company that has just declared profits of £1.3 billion was plain for all to see at Birmingham’s NEC this morning.
Virtual mass meetings to expose the great BT pay affordability lie
Following on from the June 6th special Facebook Live session for CWU members across EE, two further mass membership events will take place later this week to highlight why members across the whole of BT Group must stand united against real-term pay cuts being imposed by a hugely profitably blue chip company.