U.K.
The UCEA university employers association has increased its pay offer from 0.3% to 0.4% and refused to work with unions to produce a manual on how to avoid redundancies. The unions representing manual, administrative and teaching staff in the sector have condemned the latest pay offer although did acknowledge progress in discussion in some areas such as equal pay.
Read more at > UNISON (EN)
Unison members working in higher education are being balloted over industrial action following the union's rejection of a 1% pay offer from the employers. Unison is calling for a pay increase that not only compensates for current inflation but also for recent years of below-inflation pay increases. The latest figures show consumer prices rising by 2.6%, although the retail price index is higher at 3.2%. Read more at > Unison (EN)
Unions have broken off negotiations in the energy sector following unsatisfactory pay offers from the employers. The employers had wanted to follow developments in the public sector which would have involved a pay increase of 2.65% plus €11.10 a month. A revised offer from the employers was hardly any different and would have meant pay increases of between 2.9% and 3.25% at a time when inflation is at 3.3%. Read more at > GPA-DJP (DE )
Trade unions representing workers in local government and non-teaching staff in schools and higher education have rejected the 1.5% pay offers made by employers across these sectors. In local government and schools unions were looking for a 10% pay rise to begin to restore the loss of purchasing power over more than 10 years of pay freezes and below-inflation increases. They also argue that the pay offer is an insult in view of the efforts made by workers during the pandemic. In higher education the unions had claimed a GBP 2500 (EUR 2900) annual increase and minimum hourly wage of GBP 10 (EUR
