Odeon pay offer rejected again

Union members at Odeon Cinemas have voted against a 2.5% pay offer for the second time.

Almost two thirds of BECTU members among the cinema chain's technicians voted to reject the company's final pay offer in a ballot which closed today, March 13. The union is now planning to run an industrial action ballot.

In a previous vote the offer had been rejected by more than nine out of ten members, and the second ballot came after the company insisted that the 2.5% rise would not be improved.

Despite the management's warnings that there were no more concessions to put on the table, half of the 164 BECTU members covered by the pay claim voted in the new postal ballot, and 65.4% of them rejected the offer.

Under agreed bargaining procedures, the union will now declare a formal dispute over the pay claim, and could give legal notice of an industrial action ballot within days.