Unions co-ordinate pay campaign

The SGB/USS trade union confederation is co-ordinating a pay campaign among its affiliates with the key demands being real pay increases of 3%-4% and action to tackle pay inequality. The VPOD/SSP public services union is part of the campaign and notes that the healthier financial situation of public sector organisations means they should end pay restraint. The union warns that cutbacks in recent years are threatening the quality of public services and that there is a risk that the public sector will fail to recruit if pay increase lag behind the public sector. [Read more at > SGB (DE)->http:/

Public services union UNISON is building a co-ordinated collective bargaining campaign - Pay Matters - in response to the government's policy of trying to limit public sector pay increases to 2%. The union's national executive met recently to discuss progress and review in particular developments in local government where it wants to see pressure from the bottom up to secure a pay increase of more than 2% in 2008 in the national agreement and in the various local negotiations with specific councils. The union has also rejected a three-year pay offer covering local authorities in Scotland. The