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9 October 2000
Ten reasons why
you should reject the offer
(See
offer explained below)
1. The small (0.5%) increase can be funded already by the wages YOU lost on strike days.
2. There is NO evidence of new monies as claimed by the employers.
3. The offer remains BELOW increases elsewhere (bus drivers to get 4.1% for this year alone!)
4. You are being asked to accept a pay award for 2001/2002 WITHOUT knowing what the rate of inflation or wage trends will be.
5. The offer does NOTHING to help the low paid.
6. Many low paid members will LOSE vital welfare benefits and will fall into the poverty trap
7. There is NO minimum wage element.
8. UNISON policy is NOT to enter two year deals - there is no point anyway because there is no evidence of money from 2001/2002 being made available.
9. The offer does NOT compensate you for less-than-inflation pay awards in six out of the last seven years.
10. The revised offer for this year is ONLY half a per cent more than the offer you have already rejected.
The employers can afford more. Your national and branch negotiators do not consider the revised offer to be acceptable and recommend that you vote to reject it.
What is the revised offer?
The revised offer is (to use the employers' words) " a final one".
It proposes a two year deal - the employers say this is to bring in extra government money from next year. It involves three complicated phased increases.
Phase 1) 2% of your current pay from the settlement date of 1 April 2000.
Phase 2) Plus 1% of your old pay (not the increased pay) from 1 October 2000.
Phase 3) 3% on your new increased pay from 1 February 2001.
There will be no further pay awards until 1 April 2002.
This adds up to 6.11% over two years. That of course is just about 3% each year, split like this:
- 3.015% for year starting April 2000 (just ½% more than the first offer)
- just over 3% for year starting April 2001.
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