GMB Members have voted to reject the 1.75% pay offer set out by the NJC employers. (See table 5.) 20 January 2022. The supplemental appropriations measure, known as House Bill 14, included an 8.7% pay increase on top of the 7.5% that was approved last year. Three quarters of GMB members balloted (75%) have voted to reject the pay offer. "For the lowest paid (currently earning 20,441 per annum), the offer equates to an increase of 9.42. FAO: England, Wales, & Northern Ireland. We have continued to press for further talks and an improved pay offer. GMB members across Local Government, Councils and Schools have been having their say on pay and the results are in! IN GMB ALL MEMBERS HAVE A SAY ON THEIR PAY SO MAKE SURE DETAILS ARE UP TO DATE, GMB 2020, all rights reserved Public sector workers and the people of our country deserve better. This would be payable from 1 April 2021. The three local government unions (UNISON, GMB and Unite) are expected to lodge their pay claim for 2022-23 at the end of this month, which you will note will be almost two months beyond the. The country's two largest unions have rejected an "insulting" 1.5% pay offer for council practitioners that falls well short of its 10% claim and is likely to amount to a real-terms pay cut. Once we have these, we will be able to update you further. This will increase to 200m for the following two years, including 20m in each year to enable authorities to respond to our joint priority of decarbonisation. We will inform the employers of the result and are awaiting the outcome of the ballots of our sister unions. Young people and apprentices on the National Minimum Wage will also see a boost to their wages. GMB really appreciates your incredible efforts and we wish you and your families a safe festive period. Following the pay offer which falls short of our pay claim we need a much stronger message to government, so we have written to the employers calling specifically for them to join us and call for more funding for local government pay. Unions representing 750,000 council and school support staff across England, Wales and Northern Ireland today (Friday) criticised the 1.5% pay offer made by the Local Government Association GMB, Unite and Unison submitted a joint pay claim to the local government employers in February for a 10% pay rise. However, the Government recognises that inflation is higher than it was when these budgets were set and is committed to supporting councils to deliver high-quality public services. Also, keep any eye on the following link where regular updates will be posted GMB Workplace Noticeboards. Please note the following and the need for employers to work with union reps locally: As restrictions have been lifted across England, we need to ensure all updated risk assessments are in place. Meanwhile, some councils in London and the East of England are bracing themselves for strike action for a week this month by workers represented by Unite, which told LGC the names of the places where strikes would take place had not yet been finalised. Unions call for a 'substantial' pay rise for council and school workers Tuesday 16 February 2021 Three local government unions have submitted a pay claim for 2021/22, which they say begin s to redress a decade of cuts and recognise s the key role played in the pandemic by school and council staff. An agreement on a best practice national programme of mental health support for all local authorities and school staff. As such, for you to be facing a pay rise that is significantly below inflation is not acceptable and we are concerned that your commitment to the job and to the people you support every day is simply being taken for granted. The unions tried hard to raise the level of last year's pay offer. Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic our Local Government, School and Council workers have continued to work tirelessly to keep the country going, working above and beyond the call of duty, putting themselves and their families at risk to support the effort against Covid-19. You will be aware that the employers made a pay offer of 1.5% for 2021. Recent developments On 27 October 2021, the Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021 announced that public sector workers would receive "fair and affordable" pay rises across the 2022/23 to 2024/25 Spending Review period. The detail in the unions' claim cites an RPI figure of 10.7 per cent, which is the current annual forecast for RPI in 2023, published in November 2022 by the Office for Budget Responsibility. I understand that the National Joint Council has reached agreement on the Local Government Services pay offer for 2022-23. Its a scandal that people doing some of the most important jobs in our society are dealing with this cost-of-living crisis whilst living with chronically low pay. Thats why GMB submitted the following pay claim this year: Our demand is fair: for a pay award that keeps pace with inflation. By comparison, most council social workers in England are expected to get a 1.75% pay increase for 2021-22, though unions are still in dispute with the National Employers for local government services over their pay offer. A substantial pay increase with a minimum of 10% for all workers in local government and schools! Council employees have been offered an improved pay increase which will add 328m to the local government pay bill. The public deserve better too. In full, the increases from April 1 2021 are: National Living Wage (23+) has increased 2.2%, from 8.72 to 8.91 National Minimum Wage (21-22) has increased 2%, from 8.20 to 8.36 National. It was barely above inflation a year ago. By Jessica Hill. Jon Richards, Rehana Azam, Jim Kennedy Payments will be slightly affected by the national insurance rise. GMB members working in local government and school & academies that follow National Joint Council (NJC Green Book) pay, terms and conditions across England, Wales and Northern Ireland, have received a pay offer today. Join today www.gmb.org.uk/join. SW1A 2HQ, Rachel Harrison Council employees set to lose part of pay rise | Local Government Chronicle (LGC) EMAP Publishing Limited Company number 7880758 (England & Wales) Registered address: 10th Floor, Southern House, Wellesley Grove, Croydon, CR0 1XG We use cookies to personalize and improve your experience on our site. The headline results are as follows: 45% of respondents would be willing to accept a 10% pay increase to at least maintain standard of living, with the mean settlement across all responses being 7.4% Wilko bosses should hang their heads in shame. Best wishes, A joint review of the provisions in the Green Book for maternity / paternity / shared parental / adoption leave. Local authorities were required to accommodate potential public sector pay awards in this year's budget planning following the 176m cash increase in the local government settlement provided by Welsh Government for 2021-22. This includes: The latest NJC circular focuses on the Governments announcement on working from home across England only. Rehana Azam National Secretary, Become a workplace organiser - stand up to injustice in your workplace! Government and your employers need to understand that you simply cant be expected to accept further below inflation pay awards and we will need to send a message that unless they table a decent rise, our members will not accept it. The National Joint Council (NJC) for local government services has agreed the new rate of pay (an increase of 1.75%) applicable from 1 April 2021. 25 May 2021. With inflation spiralling and the cost of living crisis deepening, the headroom between the lowest local government pay threshold and the national living wage is set to be eroded. Now rising prices have left council and school staff wages well and truly behind. Having delivered our ballot in January, it has been frustrating waiting for news from the other unions knowing that any payment made after March will be subject to higher National Insurance costs as a result of the increase due on 1stApril. Rt Hon Simon Clarke MP The employers also propose that the NJC begins immediate exploratory discussions on three other elements of your claim, as follows: There was no support from councils for the offer to include three other elements of your claim, therefore the employers reject the following. A School? GMB is clear. There was also a separate conditions claim. Then in May, local government employers made a pay offer of 1.5% to council and school staff. Message a friend on Facebook, Twitter or WhatsApp, 2. The three main trade unions - Unison, Unite and GMB . The more people who join GMB, the stronger we are! GMBwill meet with the other recognised unions (Unison & Unite) on Tuesday 1st November 2022 and notify them and the employers of our result. Inflation is running at above 4% and workers have faced 23% real terms pay cut over the last decade. In the last GMB update we advised you that we have approached Local Government employers across England, Wales and Northern Ireland setting out our disappointment on the pay offer and asked it to be improved. Local government employees will lose some of their backdated 2021 pay rise - because "protracted" union tactics mean it will be subject to April's national insurance increase. This bulletin is available as a flyer to post in your workplace: You can download all the Pay Justice Now campaign materials you need at the Pay Justice Campaign Hub! GMB Union is writing to express concern that to date, you have not yet responded to the letter from the Chair of National employers for Local Government Services dated 25th July to your predecessor, Rt Hon Greg Clark MP and to highlight to you how this is impacting our members. The NJC payscales, which are local government payscales resulting from negotiations between the employer and trade union sides of the National Joint Council, have been agreed for the 2021/22 year. However, in a letter recently received on 18th May, 2020 the LGA Board made up of councillors have informed us they will not be approaching the government for any more resources to award to employees in recognition of their response to the COVID-19 emergency. The measure will hit lower paid workers hard and should be scrapped. What is the pay offer? Prices are skyrocketing, with inflation about to hit 10%. Because of the employers refusal to increase the offer, coupled with the increase in National Insurance contributions which is due on 1st April 2022, we have pushed for the offer to be agreed in order to ensure that members get the back pay in March as opposed to losing some in extra tax by paying this in April. We are now entering into talks to make a collective pay claim for 2021-22 for all members in local government, and to do that, we need to hear from you: Members! Unisons ballot result for Northern Ireland is not due until Thursday 10th February. Please also ensure your membership details are correct and you can update any changes here. Council employees have been offered a pay increase of 1.50 per cent from 1 April 2021. The dispute between unions and councils comes as National Insurance payments are set to rise from next April, with the UK. London, . Local government services pay agreement 2021-2022 Employers' Secretary Naomi Cooke Address for correspondence Local Government Association 18 Smith Square London SW1P 3HZ Tel: 020 7664. Recruit a member - Strength in numbers! The offer comes after a crunch meeting today between local government employers and trade unions after the previous pay offer of 1.5% was turned down in May. But the commission has. 2021 General Schedule (GS) Locality Pay Tables. The National Living Wage will increase by 2.2 per cent from 8.72 to 8.91, and will be extended to 23 and 24 year olds for the first time. Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, local government and council workers have kept the country going, working above and beyond the call of duty, putting themselves and their families at risk to support the effort against Covid-19. The Government remains committed to tackling low pay. The headline results are as follows: 31% of respondents would be willing to accept a 5% pay increase to at least maintain standard of living, 93% respondents think GMB should continue to campaign for a minimum 10.00 starting rate, 63% respondents say excluding a percentage increase there is not anything else they would like GMB to submit on the claim (we have agreed to supplement this years pay claim with a conditions pay claim), 37% of respondents work regular unpaid overtime, 69% of respondents have taken time off due to Covid-19. Your participation really matters. GMB is campaigning for pay to be properly funded. Please ensure your details are up to date as only GMB members will get a vote in our ballot. The success of busting the pay freeze was down to members coming together to campaign for pay justice - we need you to do this again. Funding of 64.5 million will be committed to ensure adult social care workers will be paid at least the Real Living Wage from May 2021, backdated to April 2021. Three local government unions have today (Monday) submitted a pay claim for 2021/22, which they say begin s to redress a decade of cuts and recognise s the key role played in the pandemic by school and council staff. The employers have made an offer of 1.5% for 2021 and have said that it cannot offer more because local authority finances are severely stretched. A reduction of hours to a 35-hour working week (on the same pay); 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays; better maternity/paternity/ adoption leave; new working from home policies and new measures to tackle workplace stress and support mental health. This circular sets out pay restoration due on 1 July 2021 as provided for in the Public Service Pay and Pensions Act 2017 ('the Act') In the pay offer letter dated 16th April 2020 the employer said: Employer side to make representations to government in order to seek funding for an additional amount to be awarded above the tabled 2.75% to employees in recognition of the exceptional hard work. In GMB, all members have their say on pay. The 2022/23 Local Government & Schools Pay offer is for one year and is as follows: With effect from 1 April 2022, an increase of 1,925 on all NJC pay points 1 and above (FTE). For every four GMB members who voted, three rejected the employers 1.75% pay offer for 2021/22. The total public sector pay bill was around 235 billion in the 2021/22 financial year - with central government pay (which includes UK government departments, parliament, most public bodies and the devolved administrations) costing about 165 billion and local government about 70 billion. As a result of this, we will inform the employer that our members have once again overwhelmingly rejected the offer and have mandated us to seek further talks for a new and significantly improved deal. THANKYOU FOR VOTING. Not had a vote contact publicservices@gmb.org.uk, The indicative ballot closes at 12 noon on Monday 13TH December 2021, and the result will be posted on the GMB website as soon as possible thereafter, along with notification to all members. EmailPublicServices@gmb.org.uk. Fry Building We would like to thank all members who took the time to vote and for the hard work of all the reps and branches in keeping members informed and working so hard to get the ballot out. Due to pandemic and restricted access to workplaces: 100+people requested socially distanced workplace meetings. The measure will hit lower paid workers hard and should be scrapped. A national minimum agreement onhomeworkingpolicies for all councils. In 2021, federal employees received a 1.0% across-the-board increase and no adjustment to locality pay. 27 October 2021 The National Living Wage (NLW) will rise to 9.50 from 1 April 2022. Thanks to reps and members who voted, joined us for online meetings, and got the vote out in their workplace! If the majority of GMB members vote YES, a formal ballot for industrial action will take place. The real problem is the impact of the rise in the long term. GMB presented this claim to Unison and Unite in discussions to agree thisyear'sjoint union pay claim. The letter sent to you in July set out the crisis within Local Government and School funding and this needs to be properly addressed, not further exacerbated by cuts. The Local Government Association Board made up of elected councillors have done a U-turn on a key part of the Local Government Pay Offer. Story updated 27 May 2021. GMB union met with the Local Government employers on Wednesday 13th October 2021. If you and your colleagues want a GMB campaign in your workplace to improve your terms and conditions, pleasecontactyour local GMB Representative. www.gmb.org.uk. The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities will set out plans for funding allocations in 2023-24 through the upcoming Local Government Finance Settlement. We have been notified that the pay award from 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022 of a 1.75% increase has been agreed by the GMB and UNISON. GMB is campaigning for pay rises to be properly funded. GMB continues to press the Local Government employers to get back round the table and improve the pay offer. Date: 11/01/2021. The Government is ready to talk to any council with concerns about its financial position where it cannot take steps to manage pressures locally. At the Autumn Statement, the Government announced that approximately 6.5 billion will be made available for councils to deliver services in 2023/24 and 2024/25, in addition to what was agreed at Spending Review 2021. Frontline staff dont need more clapping ora badge they need a proper pay increase, We're campaigning to fix social care, organising for betterpay & conditionsand fighting for full sick pay. Update your details every GMB member will get their vote make sure your details are up to date. GMB have written to the NJC national employers across local government, councils and schools asking them to join with the trade unions and make a joint approach to the Westminster Government, for more funding for local government pay. Recruit a member - Strength in numbers! . A 1.75% pay rise for local government employees, backdated from 1 April 2021, was agreed at the end of last month, and at the time the Local Government Association encouraged employers to implement it as swiftly as possible. When local government employers met earlier this week to issue their revised pay offer of 1.75% - an increase of 0.25% that UNISON regards as 'insignificant' - they did so against a backdrop of growing discontent over a proposed increase that fails to reflect the hard work and sacrifices made by council and school workers during the pandemic. A consultative industrial action ballot will start in November 2021. GMB Union negotiates pay for hundreds of thousands of workers in local government and schools. The National Employers hope this offer can quickly form the basis of an agreement between the two Sides so that employees, who continue to provide such critical support to their communities, can receive a well-deserved pay rise as soon as practicable. In the recent GMB 2022/23 pay consultation, 67% of members voted to accept the pay offer. Unison members also voted to accept the offer. As you are aware, GMB members rejected the 1.75% offer although on a turn out significantly below that required to give us any confidence that we could win a ballot for industrial action. It is unacceptable that a letter seeking an urgent commitment has been ignored and this lack of response and commitment could result in job losses. Although the sums involved in this are largely negligible (for example an employee on 20k per year would lose only 4.38 of the back pay), we strongly believe that you have waited long enough and should get every penny owed. And the response was to accept the pay offer. The total increase to the national paybill resulting from this offer is 279m (covering the period to 31 March 2022). Under the NJC constitution, if two unions accepted, the deal could have been signed off and paid before April to ensure you get all the money. 1 Horse Guards Road, All ofthe results were collated and considered by your GMB teams of Officers and Reps and the GMBs National Local Government and Schools Committees. We believe local government employees should be paid fairly, which is why we work together to negotiate better pay with employers. We know that inflation is at a level not seen for thirty years and that is before the additional costs caused by the increase in the energy price cap come into effect. I would like to offer my apologies for the delayed response. Ms Cooke explained that current government pay policy has less clarity than previously, with remits for pay review bodies making reference to affordability and consistency with private sector pay increases'. School staff, refuse collectors and council workers have kept our country moving through the coronavirus crisis, often putting themselves in harm's way. The increase is 1.75% on all pay points applicable from 01 April 2021. Lee Rowley MP It agrees an annual uplift to the national pay spine, on which each individual council decides where to place its employees. To promote our Local Government Survey, we've produced these posters for your local workplacenoticeboards: This has been a difficult year for workers across local government. 4.8 billion of new grant funding between 2022-23 and 2024-25, the largest annual increases in core funding for local authorities in over a decade. 2 Marsham Street Not a GMB member? We expect a formal response is coming soon so we are gearing up to ensure that all GMB members have a say on their pay. GMB senior reps will assess their response to the offer and agree the ballot timeline to ensure all our members have a say on their pay. They have made calls for more funding for local government and for a more stable long-term financial settlement. Local government pay - the National Joint Council (NJC) Defending and improving members' pay is one of UNISON's main tasks. GMB joint Local Government and Schools Committee representatives have discussed the pay offer and are recommending you vote to REJECT the offer. Sign in or Register a new account to join the discussion. Full time (20hr+/week) 14.57 per month, Part time: (20hr-/week) 8.40 per month, If you work term-time hours only, you might be eligible to pay the part-time membership rate, so ask your region. If you would like GMB to visit your workplace to update you on the pay offer and ballot, please contact your Regional GMB office and we will arrange a date to come to your workplace. Local government pay ballot 2022 THE PAY BALLOT IS NOW CLOSED. Thank you to all GMB members for taking the time to vote in the recent Indicative Industrial Action Ballot. Its been a tough year for so many people, especially for everyone who has worked so hard keeping the countrys public services going. London NW1 2AY. Update your details every GMB member will get their vote make sure your details are up to date. About 5.7 million people are employed in the public sector in the UK. FAO:ALL GMB MEMBERS WORKING IN LOCAL AUTHORITIES, COUNCILS, SCHOOLS AND ACADEMIES ON NJC CONDITIONS. There are also concerns about how the 2022 pay claim, which unions are this week poised to begin consulting their members over, will be impacted by the rise in the national living wage which is expected to hit 10.70 by 2024. Over the last year GMB members working in councils, local authorities and local government have shown how indispensable you are. Unison had recommended its members oppose local government employers' 'full and final' offer for the pay period from April 2021 to March 2022, which offered most staff a 1.75% increase and those on the lowest pay a 2.75% rise. Council employees have been offered a pay increase of 1.50% from 1 April 2021. Workers should get a wage increase of at least 10%. The final pay claim, as agreed by all three unions, and which has now been submitted is: A headlineclaimof an increase of 2,000 on each pay point, or of the current RPI rate, whichever is the greater, Review of term time only contracts and consideration of retainers, Reduction in the working week (without loss of pay) to 35 hours (34 in London), One additional day of annual leave across the board, Introduction of a home working allowance for all staff who are working from home, A national minimum agreement on homeworking policies for all councils, A separate urgent review of all mileage rates currently applying.
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