BT and Openreach workers are staging fresh strikes over pay as the summer of industrial unrest across the country continues. The Communication Workers Union (CWU) said 40,000 of its members at BT Group are showing “serious determination” to get a decent wage rise as they walk out on Tuesday and Wednesday, following action earlier this month.
The union said workers are opposing the imposition of an “incredibly low” flat-rate pay rise of £1,500. “In the context of RPI inflation levels already hitting 11.7% this year, this is a dramatic real-terms pay cut,” said the union.
CWU general secretary Dave Ward said: “These are the same workers who kept the country connected during the pandemic. Without CWU members, there would have been no home-working revolution, and vital technical infrastructure may have malfunctioned or been broken when our country most needed it.
