With regard to the AAVA agreement. In a recent Prospect briefing it was suggested that it would be re-instated, at the same rate. Their reasoning was that they wanted more money for the core pay negotiations and so didn't want to ask for more for AAVAs. In fact the S&S rep even stated that if they were to get more for AAVAs it wouldn't be much more than a tenner anyway. We were told that as it was voluntary we can choose to do them or not and, once a successful end was brought to the pay talks if not enough bodies were willing to do the extra shifts to keep the company afloat then management would have to look at the rate again to make it more attractive.
Don't think this is working...
And just to let you guys south of the border know- we've been told up north that you actually want the agreement re-instated as was. Can anyone shed any light on that? The feeling up here is there's no way we should be signing up in perpetuity to an agreement that was due to end this year- and definitely not at the same rate.