B&M staff are to receive an extra week s wages as recognition for their efforts over Christmas during the exceptional challenges of the coronavirus pandemic. Shopworkers’ trade union Usdaw has welcomed the move by the discount big brand retailer to reward its 30,000 workers. B&M has stores in Mold, Flint, Shotton and Wrexham. The union is also calling for retail staff to be bumped up the queue when it comes to the Covid-19 vaccine due to the risks they face doing their job. Dave Gill, Usdaw National Officer, said: “It’s been a tough time for retail staff, so we are pleased to have secured this bonus for our members in B&M.
B&M staff are to receive an extra week s wages as recognition for their efforts over Christmas during the exceptional challenges of the coronavirus pandemic. Shopworkers’ trade union Usdaw has welcomed the move by the discount big brand retailer to reward its 30,000 workers. B&M has three stores in Chester and one in Ellesmere Port. The union is also calling for retail staff to be bumped up the queue when it comes to the Covid-19 vaccine due to the risks they face doing their job. Dave Gill, Usdaw National Officer, said: “It’s been a tough time for retail staff, so we are pleased to have secured this bonus for our members in B&M.
B&M has agreed to pay its staff an extra week s wages in recognition of hard work over Christmas during the exceptional challenges of the pandemic . The discount big brand retailer had been in talks with shopworkers’ trade union Usdaw before agreeing the bonus. The union said staff have continued to work professionally and diligently in public facing roles despite a deep worry about catching the coronavirus. Around 30,000 workers are set to benefit thanks to soaring Christmas sales as stores benefitted from their essential retail status. Dave Gill, Usdaw national officer, said: “It’s been a tough time for retail staff, so we are pleased to have secured this bonus for our members in B&M.
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Tratman Award, 2019
The prestigious Tratman Award (in memory of E.K. Tratman, who died in 1978) is awarded annually for a caving-related, paper-based publication, to recognise excellence and encourage future improvement. It is one of the UK’s premier national caving awards, but is open to authors and publishers from Britain and Ireland.
First awarded for the publications of 1979, the Tratman Award was administered by the Ghar Parau Foundation when the foundation was a sub-charity of BCRA, but since 2019 (presenting the awards of 2018) when the foundation became an independent charity it has been directly awarded by BCRA. The judges are independent of the association and look for not only a high standard of writing and information content, but also factors such as the publication’s layout, print quality, binding and availability. The current award covers the publications of 2019 and was judged by Joe Duxbury, Ric Halliwell