Throughout the past few months CWU members across BT, EE and Openreach have delivered a consistent, loyal and essential service. You are one of those key workers and I thank and congratulate you for all you have done keeping essential services, businesses, families and friends connected with one another in what has been a challenging, tragic and unprecedented moment in our lives.

It is, with a heavy heart that I am writing to you today to explain how your employer (BT Group) has chosen to ignore your sterling service and to highlight the urgency of how we must act in response.

BT Group’s reorganisation plans involve:

Closure of, at least, 175 sitesAn un-coordinated approach across Customer Facing Units (CFUs) which will lessen the chance of re-deployment and managing the situation by voluntary meansUndermining and ignoring your agreements that protect your pension and voluntary redundancy termsDrastically reducing the pay, terms & conditions for multiple roles and grades

All of this will have an impact on you and your future job security. At a time of economic uncertainty and worry, BT Group is ploughing ahead with a radical reorganisation of its business; implementing changes that will undermine your existing benefits and job security as a BT Group worker. All of this to protect profit not people. The actions of BT Group are extremely shocking aggressive and morally questionable.

Your Union’s position is clear. We aim to enter talks with BT and campaign to:

Increase job security and maximise the number of UK direct labour jobs in BTAgree a centrally coordinated response to redeployment across all CFU’s to create a pathway that allows retraining and reskilling well in advance of any redundancy announcementsMaintain decent pay, terms and conditions for all BT employees by ensuring a fair grading, pay and reward structureCreate a fair, enhanced voluntary redundancy packageRe-instate the legally binding element of the pensions agreementMinimise the use of contractors and reduce off shore work to maximise employment for UK BT employees

Can we count you in?

Now is the time for us all to come together and get involved to achieve these aims. By getting involved you will help us create the necessary leverage with the company. Being a union member means we are part of an active community that achieve things together. It does not matter if you have not been active in the union in the past. There is something for everyone to get involved in to be part of this campaign.

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I hope we can count on you!

Yours sincerely

Andy Kerr

Deputy General Secretary

CWU Telecoms and Financial Services