Union reject 3.2% pay offer
Tuesday 18th November 2008, 2:59PM GMT.
UNION members have overwhelmingly rejected the 3.2% pay offer by the States.
Meetings are planned for the end of the week for both sides to consider their positions and see where they go next. States manual workers are also facing the news that up to £200m may have been wiped off the value of the public sector pension fund.
The one-year offer of 3.2% is exactly half the September RPI figure of 6.4%. But the RPI figure includes the effect of five months of GST on inflation, while ministers have said that they will not include any allowance for the 3% sales tax in the figure.
The States have already agreed next year’s spending in the Business Plan, and it does not include extra provision for a bigger pay settlement. Union boss Nick Corbel (pictured) said that the 85% vote to reject the pay offer was an unequivocal mandate, adding that he was pleased that the States side had already said that they wanted further talks.
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Wish I could turn around to my employer and reject a 3.2% pay increase like that.
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I agree with Sara – States employees have very cushy jobs which they don’t appreciate. Perhaps if they are not satisfied they should butt out and leave the vacancies open for those who will!
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I doubt many in the private sector will be getting anything like 3.2%.
Once again this is symptomatic of the air of unreality that seems to hang about the States and all their works.
As long as the island was booming these things could go on; projects would overrun on cost by millions and nothing was done about it at all.
Now we may be about to slip into recession the States may have to learn to manage things properly at last.
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No one in the private sector will get over 3.2% this year and people are loosing their jobs in the private sector yet what are the chances of job losses for public sector, none as always. When will the states members stand up to the unions and represent us the tax payer!
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