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Couldn't agree with you more. O.K. so the reps walked out of the pay meeting last Friday, I'm pretty sure management consider that a good result, no negotiations mean no pay rise, which is exactly what they want.
It's time to up the ante and start talking about industrial action unless a sensible offer is made my a certain deadline, scaremongering and propaganda works both ways. In the Profile magazine other similiar Professional groups managed a 3-4% pay rise, so why can't we negotiate the same?
Please can the Prospect reps organise some question and answer sessions so that they can give and receive ideas on how their members should proceed to get this deal through soon, because the longer we wait the worse position we will be in.
The Jan 2009 pay deal is based on August 2008 RPI and NOTHING ELSE, it must be stressed that current traffic levels and RPI must not be used in the negotiations by management. The August 2009 RPI will probably be negative for the Jan 2010 pay talks and that is why it's SO important to ensure we don't come away with nothing now.