The first set of meetings took place this week between the trade unions and the business to discuss company proposals to attack member’s terms and conditions of employment.
The business spent time at the meetings outlining why it needed to make sweeping changes. These reasons largely related to the financial state of the business. We have repeatedly made clear that we do recognise the financial challenges the business faces, but do not accept that it is our members; pay, terms and conditions to blame. Many of the financial challenges are related to poor decisions taken at an executive level and the state of the wholesale gas market which no employee in British Gas can influence.
