Okay no pay rise, but are they also giving up bonuses?
I'm not PCG but exactly why should they give up their bonus ? If a proportion of your pay is based on meeting particular targets and you meet them why shouldn't you get that money ? The bonuses aren't extra money, they are part of their pay. If you are fortunate enough to get
ALL your pay regardless of performance why are you so jealous of those who aren't so lucky ? As an engineering grade I had a small amount of my pay subject to meeting three targets. Having met those targets I would have been rightly annoyed if the money hadn't been paid and would think the PCGs would have similar views, especially as some of their targets are likely to be subjective rather than objective so they never really stand a chance of getting all of it. You can't compare PCG bonuses with our payrise. The only thing you can compare is their payrise and it looks as though they won't be getting one.
I'm sure even you pro-management can find some kind of BS justification for a 9% payrise for PB
As I've said before you won't find me defending his salary because like many others I don't buy the need to pay for quality line and think it's an obscene amount of money that can't possibly be justified. However 9% must be pretty close to what a controller with 5 years service not yet at top of scale would be expecting with spine point + RPI.
Aren't some of them "giving up" their jobs and taking a shed load of money when they go this year?
Can't comment for the ATC side but at CTC a lot of those who have gone or are going seem to have accepted offers which are much lower than the published VR terms. If the VR terms are shed loads of money then you have the union to thank for that.