Northumbria Healthcare UNISON is not making any reccomendation on the new pay offer in line with national policy.
George Barron, Branch Secretary and vice-chair of UNISON's Healthcare Executive says;
“UNISON is not saying this is a great deal; it remains below inflation. But it does provide some extra money for the lower paid, for training budgets and to assist those who need professional registration. There is also agreement to enter into further talks on a possible multi-year deal, although we will consult on this separately.
It is the best that can be achieved through negotiation. If members wish to reject this final offer, then they should be prepared to take industrial action, should that be decided in a subsequent ballot.”
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Sunday 26 August 2007
Thursday 2 August 2007
PAY 2007
I'm pretty sure that many of you will think it wasn't worth the wait,but here is the formal pay offer which has now been published.
It is quite a complex thing to work out what it exactly means forindividual pay packets. The pay points referred to in the bit on paymean that the £400 increase on salaries applies to Bands 1 and 2 and the 2.5% + £38 increase applies to bands 3 and 4.
There is a little bitof overlap which will mean the first two points of Band 5 also benefit.
Also, because the staging remains, staff won't actually get the full£400 this year, they will get 1.5% from April as before and then theywill only get 5/12ths of the rest of it as that is how much of thefinancial year is left from November 1st.
Several members of the Service Group Executive did scrap-of-paper calculations and worked out that for a person on the bottom of Band 1 (who are thepeople who will benefit the most financially from this deal) it wouldbe worth roughly the equivalent of 2.45% over this year. i.e. less than we would have received if we had succeeded in overturning the staging.
UNISON, this will now go to an individual member consultative ballot.
Ballot papers will go out starting on August 20th and theballot will close on September 13th.
It was reported that UNITE (both bits) were verylikely to just accept it, although they may be shamed into some kind of consultation if UNISON are doing it, that the GMB seemed likely to accept it and that the RCN were waiting to see the results of theirconsultation before they decided. I'm not clear what any of the otherunions have said to their lay leadership.
The position of UNISON is that this is best we could acheive through negotiations.
Some members agree, and sat this demonstrates that negotiation is not enough and we should move to an industrial actionballot.
That decision now rests with the UNISON membership.
FROM UNISON WEBSITE
(02/08/07) Union negotiators have secured a new pay offer for health workers.
UNISON will now ask all members working in the NHS whether they wish to accept the offer.
The health executive believes it is the best that can be achieved through negotiation.Should members reject the new deal, they should also be prepared to support industrial action, the executive said.
The improved offer will put extra cash in the pockets of the lowest paid workers in the NHS, no matter which country they are in. In England only, training budgets for non-clinical staff will be boosted, and clinicians will get money to put towards their registration fees.Should staff accept the offer, those in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales will get the full 2.5% increase recommended by the pay review body immediately, backdated to 1 April this year.The award will still be staged in England, with staff getting 1.5% payable from 1 April and the remaining 1% from 1 November.
The improved offer at a glance:
more money for the lowest paid. From 1 November there will be a £400 flat rate increase for those on Bands 1 and 2.
Those on Bands 3 and 4 will receive an additional £38 as well as the 2.5%. This will be payable in all 4 UK countries;
in England only, there will be additional money for staff training targeted directly at those non-clinical staff who often lose out when training budgets are cut;
also in England only, there will be £38 paid to staff on Bands 5, 6, 7 and 8(a) who are required to register to practice – this money is a contribution to their professional fees.
Full details will be available on the health pages of the UNISON website. They will also be circulated to health branches, and sent to all UNISON members in the NHS, together with ballot papers
.Ballot papers are due to be sent out on 20 August. The ballot will close on 13 September.
Nothing on the RCN, GMB,Unite(T&G) RCM, SoR,CSP, sites yet.
This on Unite(amicus):
Unite’s Head of Health, Kevin Coyne, said:
“After months of long and tough negotiations, this is a breakthrough in the pay negotiations. The new package offered by the treasury gives extra help to the low paid and for staff in England. This pay remains staged, however there is also a commitment to review future pay and conditions.
“NHS workers in England from the 1st November will now fall in line with workers in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland who received pay increases in line with the Pay Review Body's recommendation of 2.5%.
“In addition to the improved pay offer for this year, unions, employers and the government have agreed to enter into talks prior to the next pay round, to consider a multi-year deal.”
Previously the employers in England had refused to offer anymore money than the 2%, imposed by the Government, which overrode the Pay Review Body's recommendation of 2.5%.
It is quite a complex thing to work out what it exactly means forindividual pay packets. The pay points referred to in the bit on paymean that the £400 increase on salaries applies to Bands 1 and 2 and the 2.5% + £38 increase applies to bands 3 and 4.
There is a little bitof overlap which will mean the first two points of Band 5 also benefit.
Also, because the staging remains, staff won't actually get the full£400 this year, they will get 1.5% from April as before and then theywill only get 5/12ths of the rest of it as that is how much of thefinancial year is left from November 1st.
Several members of the Service Group Executive did scrap-of-paper calculations and worked out that for a person on the bottom of Band 1 (who are thepeople who will benefit the most financially from this deal) it wouldbe worth roughly the equivalent of 2.45% over this year. i.e. less than we would have received if we had succeeded in overturning the staging.
UNISON, this will now go to an individual member consultative ballot.
Ballot papers will go out starting on August 20th and theballot will close on September 13th.
It was reported that UNITE (both bits) were verylikely to just accept it, although they may be shamed into some kind of consultation if UNISON are doing it, that the GMB seemed likely to accept it and that the RCN were waiting to see the results of theirconsultation before they decided. I'm not clear what any of the otherunions have said to their lay leadership.
The position of UNISON is that this is best we could acheive through negotiations.
Some members agree, and sat this demonstrates that negotiation is not enough and we should move to an industrial actionballot.
That decision now rests with the UNISON membership.
FROM UNISON WEBSITE
(02/08/07) Union negotiators have secured a new pay offer for health workers.
UNISON will now ask all members working in the NHS whether they wish to accept the offer.
The health executive believes it is the best that can be achieved through negotiation.Should members reject the new deal, they should also be prepared to support industrial action, the executive said.
The improved offer will put extra cash in the pockets of the lowest paid workers in the NHS, no matter which country they are in. In England only, training budgets for non-clinical staff will be boosted, and clinicians will get money to put towards their registration fees.Should staff accept the offer, those in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales will get the full 2.5% increase recommended by the pay review body immediately, backdated to 1 April this year.The award will still be staged in England, with staff getting 1.5% payable from 1 April and the remaining 1% from 1 November.
The improved offer at a glance:
more money for the lowest paid. From 1 November there will be a £400 flat rate increase for those on Bands 1 and 2.
Those on Bands 3 and 4 will receive an additional £38 as well as the 2.5%. This will be payable in all 4 UK countries;
in England only, there will be additional money for staff training targeted directly at those non-clinical staff who often lose out when training budgets are cut;
also in England only, there will be £38 paid to staff on Bands 5, 6, 7 and 8(a) who are required to register to practice – this money is a contribution to their professional fees.
Full details will be available on the health pages of the UNISON website. They will also be circulated to health branches, and sent to all UNISON members in the NHS, together with ballot papers
.Ballot papers are due to be sent out on 20 August. The ballot will close on 13 September.
Nothing on the RCN, GMB,Unite(T&G) RCM, SoR,CSP, sites yet.
This on Unite(amicus):
Unite’s Head of Health, Kevin Coyne, said:
“After months of long and tough negotiations, this is a breakthrough in the pay negotiations. The new package offered by the treasury gives extra help to the low paid and for staff in England. This pay remains staged, however there is also a commitment to review future pay and conditions.
“NHS workers in England from the 1st November will now fall in line with workers in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland who received pay increases in line with the Pay Review Body's recommendation of 2.5%.
“In addition to the improved pay offer for this year, unions, employers and the government have agreed to enter into talks prior to the next pay round, to consider a multi-year deal.”
Previously the employers in England had refused to offer anymore money than the 2%, imposed by the Government, which overrode the Pay Review Body's recommendation of 2.5%.
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