{"id":31447,"date":"2022-06-30T16:17:40","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T15:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=31447"},"modified":"2022-06-30T16:38:38","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T15:38:38","slug":"cwu-vote-to-strike-over-bt-pay-as-openreach-prep-contingency-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2022\/06\/cwu-vote-to-strike-over-bt-pay-as-openreach-prep-contingency-plan.html","title":{"rendered":"BT Staff Vote to Strike Over Pay as Openreach Prep Contingency Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Communications Workers Union<\/a> (CWU), which represents c. 40,000 staff at the UK telecoms and broadband ISP giant BT<\/a> (inc. Openreach<\/a>), has today – following a dispute over pay – voted to hit the operator with its first national strike in 35 years. Delays to service provision are expected, unless a last minute deal can be done.<\/p>\n

The BT<\/a> Group settled their last dispute with the CWU during July 2021 (here<\/a>), which itself nearly resulted in a major national strike. But part of that agreement saw the operator commit to implement a pay increase for team members (and management teams) in the UK, which was due to be awarded this year and would “depend on various factors including business performance, economic outlook and inflation<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

A couple of months ago the operator said (here<\/a>) they planned to award workers a \u00a31,500 consolidated pay increase to their annual salaries (up from an original offer of \u00a31,200). This would, BT<\/a> said, be the “largest [pay rise] \u2026 in over 20-years<\/em>” for 58,000 of their UK frontline and Team Member colleagues – representing an increase of up to 8% for some colleagues and more than 3% for even the highest paid frontline workers.<\/p>\n

However, the Deputy General Secretary (Telecoms and Financial Services) of the CWU, Andy Kerr<\/strong>, who had previously called for a pay rise of 10% to recognise the “contribution our members have made to the business<\/em>“, promptly rejected BT’s offer. Kerr warned that, given the surging level of inflation, the offer would have effectively represented a “relative pay cut<\/em>“.<\/p>\n

Admittedly, it probably didn’t help that BT’s CEO, Philip Jansen<\/strong>, opted to take a 32% increase in his overall remuneration package this year. The bad news for BT and Openreach<\/a>, as well as their customers, today is that the operator’s staff have voted in favour of industrial action. The CWU actually tabled three strike ballots for BT, Openreach<\/a> and EE<\/a>, but the latter did not succeed.<\/p>\n

CWU Strike Ballot – Results<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

1st Ballot for Openreach<\/strong>
\n28k+ were entitled to vote – turnout 74.8% and 95.8% voted to strike<\/p>\n

2nd Ballot for BT<\/strong>
\n10k+ were entitled to vote – turnout 58.2% and 91.5% voted to strike<\/p>\n

3rd Ballot EE<\/a><\/strong>
\n2k were entitled to vote – but the vote fell short of the government’s threshold by just 8 votes
\n(95.5% of those who did vote were in favour)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The move threatens to disrupt various areas of BT Group’s business, spanning from customer support to Openreach’s broadband and Ethernet engineers etc. But by the looks of it, such action will not extend to those directly employed by EE<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A BT Group spokesperson said:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“BT Group awarded its highest pay rise for frontline colleagues in more than 20 years \u2013 an average 5% increase and up to 8% for those on the lowest salaries. At the same time, we\u2019re in the middle of a once-in-a-generation investment programme to upgrade the country\u2019s broadband and mobile networks.<\/p>\n

These investments are vital for the benefit of our millions of customers and for the UK economy. Above all, they are central to the success of this business \u2013 and its colleagues \u2013 now and in the future.<\/p>\n

Our job is to balance the competing demands of BT Group\u2019s stakeholders and that requires careful management, especially in a challenging economic environment. The result of the CWU\u2019s ballot is a disappointment but we will work to keep our customers and the country connected.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Dave Ward, CWU General Secretary, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“For the first time in nearly four decades, we are faced with national level strike action across BT Group. Our membership faced the challenges of home working, high staff turnover, and a real culture of fear created by senior management to deliver an overwhelming show of support for strike action.<\/p>\n

I want to pay specific tribute to our call centre workers in BT, who have delivered a historic move by voting for the first – and biggest – national call centre workers strike in British history. These workers kept this country connected during the pandemic. Without CWU members working across BT Group, there would have been no home-working revolution.<\/p>\n

This work, which was done under great difficulty and often came with tremendous personal sacrifice, delivered \u00a31.3 billion profits for the company. Over \u00a3700 million was paid out to shareholders. The company\u2019s CEO, Philip Jansen, handed himself a \u00a33.5 million pay package \u2013 a 32% increase. Over \u00a3700 million was paid out to shareholders, and the Chief Financial Officer was handed \u00a32.2 million \u2013 a 25% increase.<\/p>\n

The reward for our members? The imposition of a below-inflation increase \u2013 the very same workers who delivered profits that more like lottery numbers than actual wages.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Contingency Measures<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

A major strike like this, if it does indeed proceed, may have a similar impact to that of the earliest stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. Openreach, for example, informs us that they have dedicated business continuity and resilience teams so that, in the event of large-scale colleague absences and other crises beyond their control, they are able to keep disruption to a minimum. But there are limits to this.<\/p>\n

Put another way, your broadband, leased line and phone services will continue to function as such networks don’t require constant manual input, but there may inevitably be some delays, such as to new service provisions. During the pandemic, Openreach implemented a “change freeze<\/em>” (these also occur over holidays, like Christmas), which means that any non-essential planned engineering is postponed. We expect them to do that again.<\/p>\n

An Openreach spokesperson said:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“If industrial action takes place, nobody wins. We\u2019ll continue to focus on keeping our network running, safely and effectively, as we do every day. We have tried and tested processes to help us manage impacts of reductions in available workforce, as we proved during the pandemic.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll do everything we can to minimise any disruption and keep our customers connected.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The strike, as you might expect, will also impact some of Openreach’s rivals, not least by disrupting aspects of their Physical Infrastructure Access (PIA) services, as well as the provision of FTTP<\/a> and Ethernet access products etc. Such delays can be very costly, although the network operator may not provide compensation for this as it would be deemed a matter “beyond our control<\/em>” (there’s usually a catch in contracts about such things).<\/p>\n

At this stage, the CWU has not yet formally served notice to strike and has instead invited BT’s senior management back to the table next week for one final attempt at an agreement (11th hour deals do happen). But if no deal can be reached then they will proceed to industrial action (the details of when, where and for how long are not yet known). On the other hand, BT may well feel as if they’ve gone far enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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