NJC PAY CLAIM

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• NJC PAY CLAIM
• 2010 11

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The Claim

• A one year 500 flat rate increase or 2.5 -
  whichever is the greater - from 1 April 2010
• (Our demands for improvements to Green Book terms
  and conditions will be made separately in the New
  Year)

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What a flat rate increase of 500 or 2.5,
whichever is higher, will mean

• A 500 increase would give a 4.12 increase to
  members on the lowest scale point (SCP4 is
  12,145 so this would increase to 12,6145)
• Those below SCP 23 would receive increases above
  2.5 on a sliding scale from 4.12.
• Members on SCP 23 and above (20,198) would
  receive increases of 2.5
• The overall increase equates to a 2.8 uplift on
  the pay bill (based on 2008 workforce numbers)

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Even the Conservatives would increase pay for the
lowest paid!

• At the 2009 Conservative Party Conference George
  Osborne (Shadow Chancellor) said a Conservative
  government would implement a pay freeze across
  the public sector apart from those earning below
  18k a year. There are 475 thousand Full Time
  Equivalent workers in local government who would
  therefore receive a pay rise even under a
  Conservative central government
• UNISON estimates that NJC pay is only 89 of
  average public sector pay those on higher rates
  of NJC pay need an increase too!

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Comparisons with other Public Sector Workers
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The Crisis in Social Work

• In 2009, a Press Association survey showed that
  16 of social work posts nationwide are either
  left empty or covered by temporary staff and
  that,
• There are 12 local authorities where more than
  30 of positions are either empty or covered by
  agency workers and at one local authority only
  55 of positions are filled by a regular
  employee
• 60 of Directors of Adult Social Services report
  extra demand for safeguarding related services
  since October last year, and 85 of those
  respondents cited a worsening of the situation
  since April as demand for social services
  continues to rocket!

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Inflation Now
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Inflation in the Future
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Affordability

• Government revenue funding for local authority
  services in England will be 73.1bn in 2009/10
  and 76.4bn in 2010/11, overall grant increases
  of 4.2 and 4.4 respectively. This means that
  councils will have had above inflation increases
  every year since 1997 and an extra 8.9bn
  through this current 3-year settlement.
• In some of the most difficult economic
  circumstances in recent times, local authorities
  in England increased their reserves (school,
  earmarked and unallocated) by 250m (September
  2009 Office of National Statistics provisional
  outturn figures)
• The 2008-09 NJC pay settlement reduced
  expenditure on employee costs by almost 1

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Campaign Action

• Tell members and non-members about the claim and
  use the pay campaign as an opportunity to tell
  members about the benefits of joining UNISON
• Lobby your employer, councillor and MP
• Work with other local government trade unions
• Engage Councillors and the local press in
  discussion over the key issues of our claim

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RECRUIT!

• Use the opportunity at workplace meetings to
  speak to non members about joining UNISON
• Its so easy for non-members to join us you can
  do it on line now at http//www.unison.org.uk/joi
  n/index.asp
• We're stronger together, to join us call 0845 355
  0845
• Sign up to our Million Voices Campaign at
  http//www.unison.org.uk/million/index.asp
• UNISON - the trade union for all local government
  workers