Union members at the Warehouse Manukau are undertaking a “wildcat” strike* after rejecting the company’s measly offer of a 30 cent wage increase, says FIRST Union organiser Dennis Maga.
“If workers accept the offer of a 30 cent wage increase then that would only lift the lowest pay rate to $15.32 – nowhere near the levels needed to support a family in Auckland.”
“Workers were so insulted with the 30 cent offer that they voted to undertake a wildcat strike,” says Maga.
“The Warehouse markets itself as good employer, but its wage offer means that the majority of staff will be kept at minimum wage levels.”
“Workers at the Warehouse are worth more than a miserly offer of a 30 cent wage increase, especially when they are overworked due to deliberate understaffing in stores across the country,” says Maga.
“Our people are overworked and underpaid.”
Union members will be striking from 2.30pm to 4.30pm outside the Warehouse Manukau.
Is this humour? Rejected a 30% increase?
That’s thirty cents , Blue. Not your fault though, I read it as 30 PERcent as well. I think it must be a eye-brain perception thing?
CPI for the twelve months to June 2015 was 0.3. An increase of 30 cents to $15.32 is equal to more than twice the CPI. 10% is approximately equal to $1.50, therefore 1% is 15 cents and the CPI was a third of 1% – say 5 cents.
Based on this logic the Warehouse offer is probably reasonable.
There’s an old saying Grant; twice nothing is still nothing.
Thirty cents an hour extra, with increasing prices in food (eg; fresh vegetables), meets that criteria; nothing.
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Frank, I am not taking sides, but it seems to me the Warehouse were already paying above the minimum wage of $14.75 so based on that the offer is reasonable. One must also consider that the Warehouse sells mainly imported goods which will have increased in price as a result of the movement in the NZ dollar and with less cash in the NZ economy available to spend on some of their products it is likely that margins will be squeezed.
Better to have staff employed at the rates offered than being forced to look at ways of cutting the wage bill.
Frank, I am not taking sides, but it seems to me the Warehouse were already paying above the minimum wage of $14.75 so based on that the offer is reasonable. One must also consider that the Warehouse sells mainly imported goods which will have increased in price as a result of the movement in the NZ dollar and with less cash in the NZ economy available to spend on some of their products it is likely that margins will be squeezed.
Better to have staff employed at the rates offered than being forced to look at ways of cutting the wage bill.
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