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    Technical Notes 2024, Issue 141 - National Pay Bargaining – Suspension of Industrial Action

    • Report by:

      Ann Davie, Chief Executive

    • TN Number:

      141-24

    • Subject:

      National Pay Bargaining – Suspension of Industrial Action

    • Responsible Officer:

      Angela Fegan, Executive Officer – Customer Services & Organisational Development

    • Publication:

      This Technical Note will be published on the Council’s website following circulation to Members. Its contents may be disclosed or shared outwith the Council.

    Section

    1. Further to Technical Note 138 on Friday 9 August 2024, the purpose of this technical note is to update Elected Members in relation to the 2024 Pay Award and intended Industrial Action by GMB in Fleet Services (Workshop) and Waste services (including Mavis Valley Recycling Centre) from 14 to 21 August.
       
    2. On Friday 9 August, a revised offer was presented to the Trade Unions for consideration. The revised offer would see an uplift of £0.67 to hourly rate or 3.6% (whichever is better).

    The key features of the offer are listed below:

    • A better offer at all pay-points than our previous offers
    • Better than the NJC offer to Local Government Workers in England and Wales
    • Provides at least a 3.6% increase for everyone with an underpinning increase in the hourly rate where this is better
    • The £0.67 increase to the hourly rate is equivalent to a £1,292 increase in annual salary for a full-time worker with a 37-hour working week
    • The £0.67 uplift results in a 5.63% increase in the Scottish Local Government Living Wage
    • The offer is above the rate of inflation in effect on the settlement date
    1. In presenting this updated offer, Trade Unions were asked to suspend strike action to allow the offer to be considered.
       
    2. Accordingly, GMB officials met this morning to consider the offer and have now confirmed to the Council that strike action within the aforementioned services will be suspended at this point whilst they consult on the new offer
       
    3. Communications are being updated to staff and the public, that services will continue as normal.
       
    4. Public messaging will be issued through the usual channels to advise residents to put their bins out on their normal day and also advising that Mavis Valley Household Waste and Recycling centre will remain open and the booking system made available.
    5. A further update will follow once Trade Unions have considered the new offer.