Campaign aims

The Pay Fair! campaign supports Connect’s objective of securing a better pay deal in BT. Connect members voted in our e-poll to reject BT’s pay offer, and the union is now holding a ballot on whether members will take industrial action to put pressure on BT.

So what kind of deal would we hope for?

a fair pay increase for all A fair and transparent distribution of the RF pay budget
equal pay We’ve made some progress with BT on this – but not enough. BT needs to do more to eliminate pay discrimination from the Reward Framework structure.
differentials How does it make sense to have managers paid less than the people they manage?
increases to pay ranges BT hasn’t increased some pay ranges for years. This has affected – ie reduced – the pay increases people have had from the agreed pay reviews. And it has caused some acute business problems, such as not being able to recruit into certain jobs.
pay progression A salary structure doesn’t work properly, and can’t deliver fair pay, if people can’t move up their pay ranges.

If this sounds like a lot to ask – it’s not. Much of it is not even about the amount of money this year, it’s about putting a workable structure in place for the future. The fact is that these are reasonable, affordable aims, and that BT can’t claim to run a world-class company without addressing them.