Originally Posted by DC10RealMan
On my local TV news there was an article about council cutbacks and its effect. At Blackpool Council the employees had decided that they would all take a collective pay cut to ensure that colleagues were not made redundant. I was quite impressed and thought how their stance was very ethical.
But are the Blackpool council making over £100m in profits every year?
NATS's massive profits over the past 3 years have been based on current staffing levels. Their incessant drive to increase these profits at the expense of cutting jobs "to the bone" is, quite frankly, appaling.
And these profits give them plenty of scope for a decent pay offer...they just choose not to.