2025 NJC Pay Award News 02/06/2025 Consultation - Please Vote Now

We're consulting on your 2025 Pay Award.


We’re consulting members now on this year’s local government pay offer. We haven’t yet received your vote – we want you to have your say. We recommend that you vote to reject the offer. Voting closes on Friday 20 June at midday.  Please use the Vote Now button opposite to vote.


The offer is 3.2% on all pay points. In UNISON’s view, this offer does little to address the continual erosion of pay that members have suffered over the past fifteen years

Find out what this offer means for you here. Please use the Pay calculator opposite :  Pay calculator We believe that industrial action is needed if we’re to get an improved pay offer. If members vote to reject, the next step is likely to be an industrial action ballot. We would be asking you to vote ‘YES’ for action. Please use the Vote Now button opposite to vote.


It is vital that every affected member votes in the consultation, so that we have an accurate picture of members’ views. 

Mike Short
Head of Local Government & Education
UNISON 


The details of the offer and additional way to vote is on the UNISON website at Council and School Pay Consultation 2025 | UNISON National which also includes an online pay calculator.   

If members have not received a voting email please follow the guidance listed here https://www.unison.org.uk/njc-consultation-2025/


Members will need their membership number to vote - if they cannot find it they can call UNISON direct on 0800 0857 857.   


Please note that the Vote Now and Pay Calculator buttons and links above will direct you external pages and will be shown in a new tab. 


2025 NJC Pay Award News 20/05/2025

To All Members

 

Please see the link to the latest news from National in relation to this years 2025 Pay award.


Please share this information urgently with colleagues on NJC T&Cs.  We will be updating you shortly in respect to the industrial action ballot which you will be recieving soon, us usual in the post.

 

Kind Regards

 

Andrew Buncle


Branch Secretary 

UNISON Worcestershire Branch 

30 Love's Grove, Worcester WR1 3BU 

01905 26186 


ABuncle@unisonworcestershire.co.uk 

Enquiries@unisonworcestershire.co.uk 

Website www.unisonworcestershire.co.uk


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Ballot for council and school workers opens in England and Wales on __/May 2025
YES or No please make your mark, please VOTE and return your Ballot

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NJC May 2025 Ballot : Please Vote
UNISON has been campaigning for a decent pay rise for council and school workers. We called for a pay increase of inflation – based on the Treasury’s annual forecast for RPI for 2023, this would amount to 12.7%. However, the local government employers have responded with an offer of a flat rate increase of £1,925 (with less for part-time and term-time workers)*. In a cost-of-living crisis this simply is not good enough.

So, we’re putting it to you, our members. You are currently being balloted to ask if you wish to take industrial action over pay. Ballot papers were posted out from Tuesday 23 May in England and Wales and need to reach us by the deadline of.

We understand that taking action is a big step and may feel overwhelming when you have colleagues and service users who rely on you. It may even feel that it’s something other sectors undertake but not you. But over the past 12 years, council and school staff have lost on average 25% from the value of you pay when measured against the Retail Price Index (RPI) measure of inflation since 2010. Prices and bills are reaching new highs every day and every pound in your pay packet really counts.

Taking action will send a clear message to employers that you need a better pay rise that will actually help during the cost-of-living crisis. You deliver a vital public service that helps everyone in your community – you deserve fair pay for the important work that you do.