Employers offer a paltry 2% pay offer during what branch secretary Rob Evans described at the most hostile NJC meeting he has ever attended.
On 20th March the trade unions dismissed the offer as “insulting and demeaning” and “not good enough to consult on”. The employers accepted that the unions would not put the offer to the membership and were visibly shaken by the attack from the floor. They did however ask for further talks and agreed to take the unions rejection back to local authorities across England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
UNISON Head of Local Government Heather Wakefield said: “This is effectively a pay cut. With today’s inflation rates going up to 4.6% and living costs rising much faster than council workers pay, millions of workers are being pushed closer to the breadline. This is a paltry pay award which will drive down the morale of staff further. Make no mistake about it our members are extremely angry.” “Our members are angry. 70% of employers have failed to complete on pay and grading reviews promised by the end of this month. In addition the review of the local government pension scheme has yet to be completed.”
NB: FROM APRIL ISSUE OF BRANCH NEWS LETTER
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Good words.
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