We all know how hard its getting with prices increasing on nearly everything but our houses, but is it really needed to strike to get more money if your earning between £17,000 and £22,000 a year, also even after being offered a 4% pay increase.

Argos and their parent company Home Retail Group could be heading for trouble as workers at four distribution centres are looking to strike after voting for such action.

They were offered the above deal of 4% more money, but this is not enough for them and its understandable seeing the price of Food, Oil, Gas and other products and services increasing sharply.

The dates of these strikes will be announced next week, they will be 24-hour’s at a time and are said to escalate to four days.

Not all Argos stores will be affected but some will as these strikes affect 4 out of 15 distribution sites, Argos is currently working out contingency plans because of this action.

The main reason the union is so upset is because the pay increase of four percent was below the current rate of inflation and Home Retail’s profits have apparently increased by 16% in 2007, that’s to £423m.

What makes matters worse is that Terry Duddy; the companies’ chief executive had received a 58% pay rise to around £1.7m. Looking at that, you can see why the Argos employees deserve more money.

Source: Read