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- 2008
- 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
Employers make final pay offer to local government unions
2 April 2008
In making a final pay offer to the local government unions of 2.45%, with £100 extra for the lowest three pay grades, Brian Baldwin, Chair of the Employers' Side of the NJC, said:
"Any settlement has to be affordable both to the taxpayer and councils while at the same time making sure that local government continues to be an attractive place to work.
"If the pay settlement is set too high, councils will be forced into making unpalatable choices between cutting front line services and laying off staff. Neither unions nor employers want either of these options.
"This final offer is fair, affordable and consistent with the government's current public sector pay policy"