Not completely up to speed with all that has happened etc so could someone tell me how workers on an hourly rate get a full days pay for half a days work?
Not having a go - just confused, surely it must be one or the other?
According to the article in the ST, an example is that the drivers are rostered to complete 5 (I think) trips per shift. Once these are complete, and they may only take a couple of hours, any further work is overtime at a 2.5 x basic rate.
Also if one section in the plant finishes, there is absolutely no helping other sections who are behind/overloaded; this then leads to some staff standing around whilst others are paid overtime.
These appalling working practices have been both inherited from BA (under TUPE) and also grown up during the ongoing operation. AIUI, GG has to provide food to BA for free if the delivery is 15 minutes late - it is therefore (in the short term) easier to give and and/or buy off militant or stroppy staff rather than make the loss.
BTW, the ST article quotes GG as saying that they are losing £ 500K per DAY.
Far from £6.50/hr, the article quotes the drivers on £20-25K pa
edited to say just beaten to it by cjhants