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Find out more HERE Poor odds for staff
Unite protested outside bookmaker William Hill’s shops throughout England on October 7, as part of a nationwide day of action against the gambling giant’s plans to slash shop managers’ pay by £6,000 a year.
Hundreds of long-serving shop managers and deputy managers working in the firm’s 2,400 betting shops face the pay cuts under the company’s re-structuring shake-up.
The UK’s largest operator, who posted an operating profit of £190m last year, has faced strong criticism in
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the past for its practice of forcing staff to work in shops alone.
Unite national officer Rhys McCarthy said, “It’s very poor odds for our members, who are being asked to do the same job for less pay.
“It’s no way to treat hardworking and loyal employees. Now more than ever workers need strong trade unions like Unite on their side to stop profitable businesses like William Hill driving down wages and attacking their conditions.”
Pay protest – outside Leeds’ William Hill Find out more HERE Action not promises call
Unite members were out in full force at the People’s Assembly demo, in Birmingham on October 2, part of an estimated 10,000 protestors, who marched past the Tory Party Conference which started the same day.
The marchers sent a clear message to the government that the British people have had enough of its austerity programme that’s wrecked lives and hamstrung the economy for years.
A Unite delegation of steelworkers were among those leading the
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procession to highlight the plight of the UK’s most fundamental foundation industry now under threat. Ahead of the rally Unite assistant general secretary Steve Turner lambasted the previous Tory government adding that now, under Theresa May, the story is much the same.
“We don’t need promises – we need action,” Turner argued. “We need to continue to highlight at every turn the very real damage that this Tory government’s policies are inflicting on everyone.”
Find out more HERE Pension closure strike
As we go to press Unite Post Office managers will be joining CWU colleagues in strike action following the decision by the Post Office to push ahead with the closure of its defined salary pension
scheme from the end of March next year. Unite officer Brian Scott said, “We are disappointed by the Post Office management’s request to the pension scheme’s trustees to close it. This
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decision is unnecessary and mean spirited as the pension scheme is currently in surplus to the extent of more than £143m. We call on the Post Office to reverse its decision.”
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