CWU warns members, amid new Openreach duplicity
Beware the bearer of poisoned ‘gifts’
Just days after furious CWU protests at Openreach’s plans to ‘trial’ an unagreed new role that undercuts current Ts&Cs and places a time-bomb under the job security of the existing workforce, the company has fired another salvo in its increasingly ill-disguised ‘race to the bottom’.
Yesterday (Tuesday) the company announced that another unagreed trial – one that was denounced by the CWU late last year after it emerged that management had reneged on a central element that could have defused the long-standing disagreement over Personal Travel Time (PTT) – will be unilaterally rolled out across Service Delivery, starting next month.
Stripped of the PTT-banishing element, the union now regards the ‘My Team Incentive Pilot’ as nothing more than a blunt ‘incentivisation’ tool that introduces a dangerous form of performance related pay by the back door and risks turning back the clock to the darkest days of performance management.
