The pay offer sounds pretty good to me.
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It's not quite what the head line figure is, but I agree, it's not bad on the face of it.
There have been pay rises on a personal level at our place. But we have not had a group rise got 3 years. It's bull shit, we are well in profit. But the fact is they could close the place and be running again elsewhere in europe within a week, and everybody knows it.
What really doesn't help is an arrogant management style. We have a very experienced work fource, and close to incompetent management and structure. The waist levels and ongoing supply issues are astonishing. Yet the staff have to cover it with cut backs, banked hours, restrictive holiday periods, blah blah.
Needless to say, I am not a fan of shareholder ownership. Those very same cut backs are restricting the profits they want, it's madness.
Strikes and union involvement are probably going to set us on the slippery slope tbh.