Jun 30, 2022
BT staff to decide on major strike action
Staff at the UK's largest telecoms group BT will decide on Thursday whether to go on strike for the first time in 35 years, joining a swath of employees across the country demanding higher pay as they face a severe cost of living crisis. As Britain was hit last week by its biggest rail strike for a generation, union leaders have warned that industrial action will spread across the public sector - to teachers, nurses and care workers - unless the government backs pay rises. The CWU is also balloting 115,000 postal workers at Royal Mail about proposed strike action. BT offered a £1,500 pay rise to 58,000 frontline workers in April, including engineers, contact centre staff and retail workers, equating to between 3 and 8 per cent depending on their base salary. BT said in a statement: "It's disappointing that the CWU has decided to ballot for industrial action without consulting its members on the outcome of our negotiations. If a strike takes place, nobody wins."
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