10/09/ UNISON NJC PAY CLAIM 2010 – 11

10/09/ UNISON 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)

10/09/ UNISON 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)

10/09/ UNISON 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!

10/09/ UNISON NJC and NHS Occupational Pay Comparisons NHSNJC NHS % NHS Pay Exceeds NJC Pay by Job Title Average Salary (Median Maximum) (IDS 2009 Survey) 37 ½ Hour Week Maximum Pay ( ) 37 Hour Week Equivalent (1.4.09) Nursery Nurse 17,827 22,15221, % Social Worker Specialist Senior Social Worker 34,592 40,85340, % Home/Residential Carer Team Leader Senior Care Worker 23,90427,84427, % Domestic Support WorkerCleaner 12,618 13,94413,7589.0% Residential Carer Residential Care Assistant 16,495 18,15717,9158.6% Social Worker Social Worker in Children and Families 31,439 34,41033,9518.0% Catering Assistant Catering Assistant 12,849 13,94413,7587.1%

10/09/ UNISON Comparisons with other Public Sector Workers

10/09/ UNISON 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!

10/09/ UNISON Inflation Now

10/09/ UNISON Inflation in the Future

10/09/ UNISON 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 NJC pay settlement reduced expenditure on employee costs by almost 1%

10/09/ UNISON 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

10/09/ UNISON RECRUIT! Use the opportunity at workplace meetings to speak to non members about joining UNISON It’s so easy for non-members to join us – you can do it on line now at: We're stronger together, to join us call Sign up to our ‘Million Voices Campaign’ at: UNISON - the trade union for all local government workers