Unions attack BBC pay offer
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Broadcasting unions have slammed the BBC’s offer of up to 1.2% pay rise for rank-and-file staff as “out of step” with the public sector.
Bectu, the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) and Unite have been pushing for 2% since February but four months later, the BBC has proposed to pay all staff earning under £37,726 - around 70% of the workforce - an extra £475 a year. All staff above this threshold will face a pay freeze.
http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/5014992.article
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http://www.bectu.org.uk/news/847
Well seeing as the editor for the Daily Mail has an income of £1,3m (according to one of the rival papers) you would think he could afford the facts :rolleyes:
Interesting piece in the First Post
http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/45859,news-comment,news-politics,paul-dacre-self-serving-and-sanctimonious
But that probably upsets their view that everyone at the BBC is on huge salaries :rolleyes:
Isn't it a pain when the facts get in the way
It does sort of give the lie to them all "feeding from the public trough" and getting paid huge amounts.
There's been a half-hearted BECTU campaign to save the BBC and the rest of the industry, but the campaign hasn't really moved beyond the confines of BECTU's website, and a few party conference fringe meetings.
And with the eyes off the ball yet again, this time dwelling on pay rises, what little momemtum the campaign had built has now been lost.
Very sad.
P.S. Did Gerry Morrissey used to be a jockey?
I agree with you, BECTU need to reorganise their priorities, and quick!
BBC 'Talent' is exempt from the freeze on higher paid staff. Another unfortunate fact.
Not fact just cobblers from you, unless of course you can back it up with something.
At the time I thought you didn't get the response that I might have expected. I think you under-estimated the impact on BBC staff taking into consideration the pay increase last year was of a similar amount to all staff earning under £60k, there has been Consumer Price Index inflation and RPIX inflation which means the BBC staff are now worse off than they were and the situation will continue to get worse, yesterday the Evening Standard was quoting rail price increases of 10%.
And now today we have the announcements of a virtual freeze on pension increases which will reduce my expected pension by around £2,500 per year.
Stuffed, good and proper.
No it isn't. The BBC seem to be a multi year programme of cutting talent fees by a quarter.
Phazer
whys the license fee going up every year if all there costs are going down.. sounds like a fiddle to me!
What??!! Can you prove this untruth?
Why does the cost of a Sky subscription go up every year?
BBC goes up because of rising costs and more programming - and investment in new technology, more broadcast platforms too.
Most normal working people have not had a pay rise at all, and work far harder than BBC people.
Interesting comment - please explain.
Are you saying nobody should be paid more than the average wage?
Given that a significant amount of BBC staff are based in London you should perhaps compare this to a London wage.
The median london wage in 2009 was £627 per week £32,604
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=285
So the fact that around 70% of the BBC earn less than £37,726 a year doesn't seem quite so excessive now does it?
Can you prove that "most" people work far harder than BBC people?
No - I didn't think so :rolleyes:
The trouble is, that is the way many people on these boards behave.
they are luck to be getting any kind of pay rise, in my opinion.
besides if people donbt like their pay rises surely they can go and get higher paid jobs in the commercial sector?
the pay rise offer to christina bleakly? doesnt that demonstrate the talent are not getting the same "cap" as the middle income emplyees?
so if the talent were under these same - no rises - conditions how come christina bleakyl got offer a huge increase to stay at the bbc?