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O’Shera said he needed 1,000,000 per year more productivity hours from engineers . To achieve that he wanted cut engineers gross wages while increasing their working week with reduced holidays thrown in .
In the end he’s now lost in the region of 1000 engineers and 1,600,000 lost productivity hrs per year and despite a vigorous recruitment campaign cannot get new engineers quick enough to replace those that are still leaving .
He’s demoralised the whole workforce and still talks as though things are going his way .
This won’t end well for him or Centrica, and the market knows this - hence the SP.
They are very short of engineers now that so many engineers left or engineers were sacked and didn’t take up the offer of re-engagement. They will be short of engineers for some time now as the wage they are now offering which is substantially under 40k and is in fact 34k and you won’t get good experienced engineers for that kind of money nowadays - not engineers that have lots of experience an£ knowledge anyway .
What you have to understand is some will not sign and ultimately will leave (no idea on the numbers but looking like it could be 1000ish . That’s a quarter of the engineers.
Then the ones that have signed only want to protect their jobs , they are certainly not signing because they are happy. Remember this was forced on them at a when they were being praised as Key Workers who carried on regardless of Covid while the SLT were plotting behind their backs.
You think this will gain loyalty among the staff ?
As I’ve said many times before the engineers (from the most profitable side of the business) have been disproportionately affected by the cuts and no justification why the engineers were targeted above other staff within Centrica and British Gas.
Given that I’m sure the fight for fairness will continue.
I find that hard to believe unless of course it was a contractor . We are regulated very stringently and I have known engineers to go through gross miss conduct before but seems almost impossible to get rid of contractors not matter how bad they are .
Chris O’Shea wants more of these contractors so in the end the customers will choose whether BG survives.
In the committee he said he would provide the information that his lawyers gave regaling the issuing of the 188’s in yammer he says he didn’t say that and only the lawyers would be able to exchange that information and in there basically called Darren Jones MP a liar for saying he said that . That information has never been forthcoming ! As regards the apprentices , 3 years ago the engineers gave up a big chunk of their pensions to allegedly fund 450 apprentices and only 48 have been taken on after 3 years so you must be able to see the faith we have in O’Shea now.
Joe William , he’s said a lot of things . Including lying to the Select committee . Although a lot of working (mostly none engineers) have signed his new contract, they are not happy about it or the way it was done . Will this affect things going forward ? Only time will tell .
And Jed I did once post about why there was industrial action , you obviously didn’t read all of it (or can’t read) and chose to start ****ging off engineers and the union so not point going through it again for you to do the same. I’ll just post the odd facts that I do know and comment when I feel I need to point anything out .