Members have voted convincingly in favour of rejecting the pay offer put to them by DWP management. More information can be found
here, but in short 75.7% voted to reject the offer. The turnout was 44% which although low was better than a lot of recent ballots. The Group Executive Committee will be meeting next week, and have already demanded an urgent meeting with management to discuss the way forward.
Your Branch Executive Committee think this is a sensible outcome as other posts demonstrate. There is no way that we can allow our members to receive such derisory rises over the next three years, especially those on the band maxima who have given many years of service to the employer.
An excellent result to the Pay Ballot. I think the Group Executive Committee (GEC) deserve a lot of praise for the way they handled the ballot keeping members informed of what this pay offer really meant. DWP Managements use of local managers and the intranet site to try to persuade staff to accept the pay deal has failed miserably. We now await the next developments.
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