Thursday 9 March 2023
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Met Office workers to strike over pay and redundancy terms
Members of the Prospect Trade Union will hold industrial action on March 15 and 16
Workers at the Met Office are set to strike over pay, job losses and redundancy terms next week. Members of the Prospect Trade Union working at the Exeter-based forecaster will run picket lines on March 15 and only work contracted hours on March 16.
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7 comments:
A couple of days with no weather might be quite nice. We will all have to look out of our windows!
Woodsy - Met Office staff ought to look out of their windows more often too. We often see a difference between what we can see and what the Met Office thinks we ought to be seeing.
The Met Office should sack the buggers for not turning up then there'll be no need for redundancy pay.
"the Exeter-based forecaster"
So that's how they do it! They knew that the prevailing winds in the UK are from the South-West, so they build a HQ there and just tell the rest of us that we're probably going to get what's currently floating past them.
dearieme - especially if it makes no difference to the forecasts.
Sam - I bet they have another in Wales for the same reason.
"Exeter-based forecast"
look at radar chart, if it's raining in Exeter now it will be here in Sherborne in about two hours. Works every time for me so, yes, they are redundant.
djc - that must be handy. Maybe there is an equivalent location for predicting rain coming to Derbyshire. I'll check.
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