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- Employers and unions agree arbitration terms
- Council staff to receive 2008/09 pay rise
- Healey announces support for councils to deliver equal pay
- 84,000 council staff strike on second day of action
- Survey reveals 100,000 council workers strike
- Only 611 schools closed by strike, according to LGA survey
- Council pay offer remains the final offer
- Less than a quarter of council workers set to strike - LGA survey
- Response to Unison vote for strike on council pay
- NUT should 'pause for thought' before embarking on strike action - council leaders
- Employers make final pay offer to local government unions
- NUT should take a pause for thought before strike action - council leaders
- LGE submit formal pay offer to unions
- Any council worker pay deal must balance taxpayer needs, affordability and attractiveness of local government
- Councils striving for equal pay for its workforce
Local Government Employers submit formal pay offer to unions
19 March 2008
The Local Government Employers have today presented their formal response to the union pay claim which was submitted to council bosses recently.
Council leaders have made an offer of a 2.2% pay rise for the next financial year.
Cllr Roger Phillips, Vice Chair of the Employers' Side, said:
"The key aspect of this offer is to make sure that any pay settlement is affordable to the taxpayer and councils while at the same time making sure that local government continues to be an attractive place to work.
"It must be borne in mind that if the pay settlement is set too high then local authorities will have to make unpleasant choices between cutting front line services and laying off staff, neither of which either the unions or the employers want to see.
"The Employers' Side will take a firm but fair line with the Trade Unions that the government has set a framework for public sector expenditure in the next few years which must be fully reflected in ensuring that pay does not rise above what is affordable and acceptable to local people."