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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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NJC and NHS Occupational Pay Comparisons

NHS NJC NJC NHS NHS % NHS Pay% NHS PayExceeds NJC Exceeds NJC Pay byPay by  

Job Title Job Title Average Salary

(Median Maximum) (IDS 2009 Survey)

37 ½ Hour Week Maximum Pay (1.4.2009)

37 Hour Week Equivalent (1.4.09)

Nursery Nurse Nursery Nurse 17,827  22,152 21,857 22.6%22.6%

Social Worker Specialist

Senior Social Worker 34,592  40,853 40,308 16.5%16.5%

Home/Residential Carer Team Leader

Senior Care Worker 23,904 27,844 27,473 14.9%14.9%

Domestic Support Worker Cleaner 12,618  13,944 13,758 9.0%9.0%

Residential CarerResidential Care Assistant 16,495  18,157 17,915 8.6%8.6%

Social Worker

Social Worker in Children and Families 31,439  34,410 33,951 8.0%8.0%

CateringAssistant

Catering Assistant 12,849  13,944 13,758 7.1%7.1%

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Comparisons with other Public Sector Workers

Lowest NJC Pay Points Compared to Equivalent Police, HE and Probation Workers

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Police Staff(Apr 09)

HigherEducation(Oct 09*)

Probation(Oct 09)

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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

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