Hi, thanks for the prompt replies. The problem is that the company is very strong,as stated this is the best year yet but they are jumping on the "economic climate" to reduce our pay, we have had a collective letter outlining whats going to happen, but nothing personal yet.

Ok.thanks for the reply`s. We had a meeting today and the company has said that this is a result of uncertain tradeing conditions,they say they are not making any money and if we dont except this then their will be redundancys (this is rubbish because this is the best year yet, up from 22mill to 28 and lots of property and machine purchases, and this is the standard line we get each year for not getting a pay rise) We all feel that the company is using this so they can cut our pay.

Hello. This is the first time i have had to make a post on this type of site. We have just been told that of the 1st March we will be taking a 10% pay cut with the same hours,can they do this?their has been no consultation or anything this is the first we have heard. What are our rights to this sort of thing?we all have contracts and all have more that 10 years service. Many thanks for any help