GMB To Consult On New Offer For Local Government Workers

21 Mar 2014

Extra for the lowest paid is welcome but worth only a few pence extra and hour leaving the local government workforce as the poor relations of the public sector says GMB.

GMB, the union for local government workers, responded to the pay offer from the employers from April 2014 for 1.5 million local council workers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

The offer is for Scale point 5 the lowest rate- 4.66%, Scale point 6 - 4.36%, Scale point 7 - 3.10%, Scale point 8 - 2.06%, Scale point 9 - 1.46%, Scale point 10 - 1.25% and Scale point 11 and above - 1%.

Brian Strutton, GMB National Secretary for Public Services, said “The 1.5 million strong local government workforce will be dismayed that nearly all of them will be getting just a 1% pay rise. The extra for the lowest paid is welcome but is worth only a few pence extra on the hourly rate. It still leaves the local government workforce as the poor relations of the public sector. And councils can afford more. They are squirreling away hundreds of millions in reserves. We will now be consulting GMB members who I expect will say it is not good enough.”