Pay rise %

[postmanpatscat2]

Ah thought it was this week. Thanks

[hewittinspain]

Let's be fair to make any notable difference our payrise needs to be around £20-25 a week after tax based on a full time rate so I'd say that would amount to about a 6% payrise. My guess is it will be much less than that or around that over 3 years.

[postmanpatscat2]

The way I see it for this job to be worthwhile, working in all weathers, walking miles, all the nonsense policies you have to adhere to whilst being customer friendly, taking away the delivery allowance we need to be on atleast £16/hour to put your heart into it and give the job ya all. It's clear that isn't going to happen! So Im looking for pastures new.

[postmanpatscat2]

Ive got a mate working for Euro car parts just on the phone awnsering calls in a nice warm office and dealing with customers on £2400/month + bonuses.

Another mate working in a factory building parts for oil rigs, minimal qualifications on £18/hour with 1.5x rate ov over time and 2x rate overtime on sundays (Yes £36/hour!) We are getting ripped of massively.

[borders]

Ive got a mate working for Euro car parts just on the phone awnsering calls in a nice warm office and dealing with customers on £2400/month + bonuses.

Another mate working in a factory building parts for oil rigs, minimal qualifications on £18/hour with 1.5x rate ov over time and 2x rate overtime on sundays (Yes £36/hour!) We are getting ripped of massively.

Flipping Heck , you used to be able to do some decent overtime without all the Hassle and Bullshit that you get now . Some people that did the graft had paid their Mortgage off by the time they were in their in early 50's . Today , that must be almost impossible , people are telling me 40 year Mortgages are the norm now ? Nuts.....

[fadetogrey63]

Another mate working in a factory building parts for oil rigs, minimal qualifications on £18/hour with 1.5x rate ov over time and 2x rate overtime on sundays (Yes £36/hour!) We are getting ripped of massively.
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And here's me, on new contract and no choice but to work 6 hours on a Sunday for the normal £12:54 an hour..

[postmanpatscat2]

Another mate working in a factory building parts for oil rigs, minimal qualifications on £18/hour with 1.5x rate ov over time and 2x rate overtime on sundays (Yes £36/hour!) We are getting ripped of massively.

And here's me, on new contract and no choice but to work 6 hours on a Sunday for the normal £12:54 an hour..
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It's disgusting isn't it! Unfortunetly we have the worst of the worst involved in the heirachy at royal mail. Pure greedy pigs.

I wouldn't work sundays for less than £20/hour but obviously if you are looking for a job and this is all that's out there well ya gotta do it I suppose.

[hewittinspain]

Another mate working in a factory building parts for oil rigs, minimal qualifications on £18/hour with 1.5x rate ov over time and 2x rate overtime on sundays (Yes £36/hour!) We are getting ripped of massively.

And here's me, on new contract and no choice but to work 6 hours on a Sunday for the normal £12:54 an hour..

It's disgusting isn't it! Unfortunetly we have the worst of the worst involved in the heirachy at royal mail. Pure greedy pigs.

I wouldn't work sundays for less than £20/hour but obviously if you are looking for a job and this is all that's out there well ya gotta do it I suppose.
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Why is this job all that's out there? There are a lot of jobs with higher wages than this job especially on a Sunday.

[Rommagic]

Inflation hits 3.5 per cent.

[Wullie10]

The way inflation is shooting up , it would be in this new blokes interest to settle a pay rise ASAP.

[norris9]

I suspect we will get somewhere between a 4% to 5% pay rise.

[postmanpatscat2]

I suspect we will get somewhere between a 4% to 5% pay rise.

Can't they just raise the price of stamps another £1

[Londonsburning]

I suspect we will get somewhere between a 4% to 5% pay rise.

Can't they just raise the price of stamps another £1

Oh I'm sure they will

[Stef]

I watched the CWU live show last night, on pay the CWU have rejected 4 pay offers. Dave Ward spoke about inflation being 3.5% at the moment and how they have rejected an offer slightly higher than that.

[mjd24]

We haven't got Labour shortages hence why most jobs now are minimum wage.
Of course the minimum wage destroys jobs, especially if its set too high, employers will let staff go, reduce hours or automate.
Politicians are in general, greedy and self-serving liars but you seem to trust them to centrally plan everything
As for the Greens, their net zero policies are totally insane, Red Ed has managed to increase our energy prices quite significantly in fact I believe our energy costs are amongst the highest in the world,but no doubt the Greens could make it worse.

So wages are low because there are too many people, and prices are high because of....Net Zero? Not corporate greed, broken markets or political failure - just immigrants and wind turbines.


Let's be clear - we absolutely do have labour shortages in key sectors.


A CBI survey found that 71% of UK businesses reported labour shortages in the past year.

https://www.cbi.org.uk/articles/the-uk- ... r-strain/

The healthcare sector, including nursing and social care, is experiencing serious staffing gaps

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/202 ... -crackdown

Construction, hospitality and tourism are also struggling to recruit, due to a lack of domestic interest

https://info.datumrpo.com/blog/labour-s ... t-affected


So no, the fact that so many jobs are on min wage isn't proof of "too many workers" - it's proof of employer power. Employers don't raise pay unless they're forced to, and our current laws are too weak to make them. Study after study, including the UK's own Low Pay Commission, shows that modest increases to the min wage have little to no impact on employment

https://www.gov.uk/government/publicati ... port-2024

What they do achieve is reduced in-work poverty and have boosted local economies because when low-paid workers earn more, they actually spend it, and that lifts demand in the real economy

Yes I agree that politicians can be greedy and self serving but your answer seems to be "Let's have no rules, no protections and let Amazon run the show". Genius plan.

Not saying the Greens are perfect but at least they are focussed on building things rather than blaming others or selling off what's left. So if choosing between "insane" ideas like public ownership, fair wages and clean energy over crumbling services, billionaire landlords and sewage in the rivers, then yeah, I'll take the insanity.

Well you're in luck, because Labour are implementing many of your crackpot ideas, such as Net Zero and mass immigration
I never mentioned large corporations running the show, in fact many of them need broken up so competition can thrive, nor did I mention that we ought have no rules or regulations.
You seem to read into a lot of things I've never said.

Bet you’re happy following this weeks official net immigration figurs Milly? Down from 728’000 in 2023 to 431’000 last year! You must be celebrating? And i bet the Mail et al have been shouting it from the rooftops this week? Im away though so havent had chance to see the front pages.

But i bet its all wall to wall coverage of how our official net migration has HALVED.

Am i right? Farage and Tice probably over joyed!! They can move onto all their other policy ideas now