Post unions in rage over hiring plan October 18, 2009 TRADE UNIONS warned employment agencies wanting to get involved in the Royal Mail dispute that they might face crippling fines, exacerbating already fraught tensions between the two sides. The GMB joined the Communication Workers Union (CWU) – which has called for national strikes over modernisation objectives – in slamming Mail plans to hire in 30,000 [...]
Power workers snub pay deal October 5, 2009 Power workers and oil refinery staff across the UK yesterday rejected an offer on pay and conditions aimed at ending a long-standing row. Up to 30,000 workers at sites including BP FPS Grangemouth, Sellafield in Cumbria and Shell UK Stanlow say they want employers to stop undercutting agreed rates and employing cheaper foreign labour. The [...]
BA PILOTS AGREE TO TAKE PAY CUT July 13, 2009 BRITISH AIRWAYS (BA) pilots agreed to a 2.6 per cent pay cut yesterday, as part of a package of measures designed to save the ailing airline £26m. The move comes as the firm’s directors prepare themselves for what is expected to be a stormy annual meeting today. The pilot’s union Balpa said 94 per cent [...]
BA PILOTS AGREE TO TAKE PAY CUT July 13, 2009 BRITISH AIRWAYS (BA) pilots agreed to a 2.6 per cent pay cut yesterday, as part of a package of measures designed to save the ailing airline £26m. The move comes as the firm’s directors prepare themselves for what is expected to be a stormy annual meeting today. The pilot’s union Balpa said 94 per cent [...]
BA calls in Acas to avert strike action July 1, 2009 BRITISH AIRWAYS (BA) said it asked the conciliation service Acas to intervene in a bid to reach a deal with unions on jobs and pay yesterday. Talks between BA and the Unite and GMB unions aimed at agreeing a series of cost-cutting measures including a pay freeze and more than 3,500 job losses broke up [...]
BA STAFF AGREE TO WORK FOR FREE June 25, 2009 EIGHT HUNDRED British Airways (BA) staff will work for nothing next month, after the struggling airline convinced 7,000 employees, or 17 per cent of its workforce, to take a pay cut. Chief executive Willie Walsh, who earns £735,000 a year, said the staff would save the airline around £10m. Walsh has already agreed to work [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING July 23, 2009 FINANCIAL TIMES Ericsson joins fight for Nortel wireless unitEricsson has joined the battle for control of Nortel Network’s core wireless division in a move that pits it against Nokia Siemens, one of its biggest European rivals, and MatlinPatterson, a US private equity fund. The flurry of interest, ahead of today’s planned auction of the assets, [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING July 23, 2009 FINANCIAL TIMES Ericsson joins fight for Nortel wireless unitEricsson has joined the battle for control of Nortel Network’s core wireless division in a move that pits it against Nokia Siemens, one of its biggest European rivals, and MatlinPatterson, a US private equity fund. The flurry of interest, ahead of today’s planned auction of the assets, [...]