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49 minutes ago, SuperBacon said:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/apr/21/royal-mail-agrees-pay-deal-cwu-postal-workers-union

What you spending yours on @Mr_Danger 

You still buying basketball vests and tracksuits? :)

It’s gotta get past the Posties first, half of which will need a time machine to achieve a deal that’s palatable. Also, there was an offer of a £1500 lump sum on the table the other week that has disappeared!

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8 hours ago, Mr_Danger said:

It’s gotta get past the Posties first, half of which will need a time machine to achieve a deal that’s palatable. Also, there was an offer of a £1500 lump sum on the table the other week that has disappeared!

£1,500 with a 2% pay increase from April 2023.

 

£500 with a 6% pay increase from April 2023.

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8 hours ago, cobystag said:

£1,500 with a 2% pay increase from April 2023.

 

£500 with a 6% pay increase from April 2023.

Yeah with the 6% pay increase kicking in from 2024 if we chose that option. Definitely would have took the higher amount knowing we can’t trust the company but the option has been removed anyway. Jam today dammit!

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56 minutes ago, Mr_Danger said:

Yeah with the 6% pay increase kicking in from 2024 if we chose that option. Definitely would have took the higher amount knowing we can’t trust the company but the option has been removed anyway. Jam today dammit!

No, it's 2% from 2024.

Always was with both options.

The £500 lump sum was with 6% from April 2023.

£1,500 lump sum with only a 2% increase from April 2023.

Please make sure you read the fine print carefully before voting on it as you've already been misinformed. 

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8 minutes ago, cobystag said:

No, it's 2% from 2024.

Always was with both options.

The £500 lump sum was with 6% from April 2023.

£1,500 lump sum with only a 2% increase from April 2023.

Please make sure you read the fine print carefully before voting on it as you've already been misinformed. 

Not according to Royal Mail and the CWU.

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You are aware what you posted confirms exactly what I told you above right?

 

Option A: £500 lump sum with 6% from April 2023.

 

Option B: £1,500 lump sum with 2% from April 2023.

 

EDIT: Actually, my apologies, £500 gets 2% from next April. £1,500 gets 6% from next April.

 

I mistook and thought you were on about THIS year. That's my fault if that was never the case so I'm sorry there.

 

EDIT 2: Yeah. Your argument was always about 2024 and I was the one who incorrectly assumed. Plus I didn't clock the 2024 difference.

 

I was blinkered thinking about this year's money!

 

But that makes sense now. My bad again.

 

 

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In the NHS it is so demoralising at the moment.. Unison et al have no back bone and the RCN is on its own, as the only player willing to hold their nerve. 

Sadly I think 5% is all we will be getting. If teachers etc get a better deal there will be fury. Same if my medical colleagues get a better deal (haven't seen it yet) there will be alot of resentment. 

The fact is we work way beyond what we get paid for and if we all stuck to our paid hours the NHS would crumple. At the same time we aren't a charity, as highly specialised and skills professional people we need proper recompense for the psychological and physical bashing we take every day. 

I've spent all those claps from 2020 as have my colleagues. 

 

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My union has started a strike ballot over pay for schools and council workers. I hate, and I mean hate, that I'm going to have to strike if it goes through, but it's desperately needed.

 

I hate it because of my specific job role (if my team strikes, there are no funerals, and I hate to potentially be upsetting people like that), to be clear. I'm all for strike solidarity, and I will be on strike if that's the vote result!

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