Did Argos strike?

Argoose

very true, although we are using the strike as a final option. We have had many meetings with the MD's and have not gained anything from it. One thing I may say, they act like children.

emweaver

this is silly most ppl are lucky to get a 4% payrise and lucky to earn £22,000 or at least where i live they are. Bloody silly. ranting on how they struggle to pay everday costs as if the rest of us dont too

ahhhhh......gosssss

In reference to the above post, I work at Argos and I can assure you last year I earned considerably less than £22,000. This strike must also be judged in the context that the CEO a Mr Terry Duddy was recently given a 58% pay rise, the company has made record profits this year with sales up 16%, and trying to force the staff into monthly pay instead of weekly without any compensatory pay for the changes to the T&C's of contracts.

Don't shop for it , Argoshit !!!

we_are_always_skint

i agree with you and well done for taking it this far

i recently left argos mainy because of how fed up i was with being told that you can only do *this, this + this* for your customers but as soon as they kick off you are 100% undermined and made to look a right unhelpful idiot by your team leaders/managers

but the other big factor was changing to monthly pay - there was no help from argos (well you got a letter saying you can go to CAB if you need advice i think) but the majority of store staff work almost every day on very short shifts for MINIMUM WAGE. so we were expected to last a whole month on one weeks pay!!! about £70 quid (most of the staff at our store are employed 5 days for 3 hour shifts so you dont have to have breaks i expect)
its disgusting and the least they could off done is give half a months pay or something to help us tide over

i hope you are succesful as i worked my backside off there for years on MINIMUM WAGE to be worked like a dog in the hottest and coldest climates with no thanks

andywhu

Hi i deliver for argos and when we were forced over to monthly pay we were given an advance which was then payed back over about eight months i think. It is a very unfair if they are just making u changeover with no help.

Did the strike go well, are there anymore planned?

Argoose

Just another dig for the almighty Argos. As you all may know the new 2009 catalogue just launched on the 19th of January. Well, stores started returning the new cats a couple of days after, saying they were faulty! Hollman printed catalogues have a fault - they fall apart!! All you have to do is open them half way through and you hear a "pop". The binding glue fails. We are the largest customer for Hollman Printers. Dont think we will be using them next year! Or should I say this year, next cat launch in July. Thought you all might like a laff.

Thanks :rotfl:

cheeky

i dont see whats so funny - 100's of thousands of catalogues printed and binned, dozens of extra deliveries, customers peeved, staff annoyed and a printer that may loose their largest account and go out of business causing redundancies and staff to lose their homes all down to a faulty glue/bind/machine/QA?

And, !!!!!! has it go to do with strikes?