RE: BT20 Mar 2020 12:28
Part of what LT is saying is based in fact. The 13000 cuts are in management Prospect is there Union, and over the years have been poor at standing up for there members, unlike non management staff represented by CWU. Staff cuts, re skilling, volunteer redundancies, have been going on for at least10 years but mostly non management rolls. New staff have different contracts to older staff, lower wages, less security, poor pension, greater restrictions on hours that are paid. The newer staff do not come from a culture of job for life, they have been brought up in a world where you need to change your job every few years to progress in your career. Long term staff often take voluntary terms with early pension, the good ones, rather than after say 20-25 years experience in a work stream, be retrained to something they know nothing about and may not have an interest in. That interest is what made many highly skilled in there old roll, the new one may well not motivate them to excell. Many well trained, highly qualified people are being offered things like, work in a call centre, some take those jobs for personal reasons others decide its time to move on. Each to there own. It happens now in many places it’s the way the world is, weather it is right or wrong is not going to change that. The only up side for BT in the long term is that a whole fibre network is more robust than a copper one, that alone will reduce the skill level and improve reliability, therefor needing less staff going forward, or using contractors instead of full time staff. May not be right, but there we go..
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