On 3rd April COSLA, the employers’ organisation, made an offer for this year’s pay award. The offer consists of several elements which will be differentiated depending on how much you earn.
The branch has issued a briefing to all council members so please watch out for that.
UNISON Local Government Committee recommends that you vote to REJECT this offer.
You will shortly receive an email with a link to vote. Watch out for this as it may go into your Junk folder. It is important that you vote as we need the voices of as many members as possible to say that we need and deserve more.
We are asking you to reject because this offer falls far short of our joint claim and it does not even give parity to other pay offers within the public sector and not in line with the offer made to Teachers. Please remember if you do vote to reject then it could be likely that we would need to take industrial action to achieve more.
The pay offer
Basically, all workers will be offered 5% onto their salary from 1st April this year, with a further percentage amount payable from 1st January 2024. This will be differentiated depending on how much you earn.
- If your hourly rate is below £14.78 a 2.5% additional percentage will be applied from 1st January 2024.
- If your hourly rate is between £14.78 and £19.71 then a 1.5% additional percentage will be applied from 1st January 2024.
- If your hourly rate is above £19.71 then an additional 1% from 1st January 2024.At the end of the proposed pay increases the Local Government living wage will have been increased by 99 pence.So, all workers will receive 5% now plus either 2.5%,1.5% or 1% on 1st January 2024. Any pay claim for 2024/25 will still be due/implemented on 1st April going forward.
There are various commitments on working with the joint trade unions to work towards a minimum rate of £15 ph within local government and other issues raised within our pay claim.
In the past UNISON members in Aberdeenshire have shown that they are prepared to stand up for decent pay. Together we can do that again.
Vote REJECT and show that we are worth more.