PCS Mod Pay Update & National Pay Campaign Meeting – Wednesday 24th Sept. 10:30, Room 6201A Tomlinson House.
Members are advised that PCS are holding a meeting to discuss Mod Pay 2008 and the National Pay Campaign in the conference room, 6201A at 10:30 on Wednesday 24th September 2008. Facility time of one hour has been allowed by management for all members to attend this meeting.
Dougie Brownlie from Mod Group will be on hand to give members the latest update on pay 2008 and will detail the national pay campaign.
The PCS national pay campaign is critical. PCS are calling for:
A cost of living award in line with inflation
Reform of the Treasury Remit Guidance so that progression is funded in the same way as the rest of the public sector i.e. outside of the pay cap.
This is because the inadequacy of MoD pay directly arises from Government policy of limiting public sector pay increases to well below the rate of inflation. This pay restraint policy also applies for 2009 and 2010. The Treasury are strictly monitoring all pay offers, agreeing the award with Departments in advance of any meetings with the unions, and are insisting that they cannot be altered without their permission.
The Treasury require any pay offer to be worth less than the rate of inflation, making nonsense of the concept of genuine negotiations between management and unions.
This approach punishes all of the public sector, but in fact is particularly bad for the Civil Service and related bodies. In our case the overall increase allowed by the Treasury includes the cost of funding pay progression, whilst for the rest of the public sector pay progression is resourced from outside the pay cap. This is inherently unfair and reform of the Treasury Remit Guidance is at the heart of the national campaign.
I hope to see many of you there.
Yours fraternally
Ian Melvin
VA(NB)PCS Secretary
