Government recommends 2.8% pay rise for public sector workers

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1. Now the Unions can make demands, kick up a fuss, ballot, and delay everyone getting their pay increase for 6 months to end up achieving nothing as per usual.  

   2.8% will be confirmed and back dated November 2025. 

   Hopefully I’m proven wrong though. I’m not anti-unions. 

2. The unions are reacting quite badly to this. Assuming the government sticks to this number it will be interesting to see whether they follow up on threats of industrial action.

   It does seem like this recommendation is at odds with some of the government’s other commitments though; for example I saw an article the other day that declared that three years of 10% pay rises would be necessary to achieve the target of 6,500 extra teachers (although it was on a teaching news site).

3. … recommend to who?

   Being the decision-makers, if anything, would mean they’re *suggesting* that, instead?

4. What I’d like most of all from a Labour government is to have any reasonable pay rise on time, not in the bloody autumn like we’re some sort of an after thought.

5. Now will the government stick to that deal for MPs

6. Meanwhile minimum wage increases a lot more (which is a good thing)…. So those that had good paying jobs 5+ years ago are edging ever closer to minimum wage.

7. >It added that officials would have to consider whether additional costs could be covered through other savings or improvements in productivity.

   So, another round of hiring freezes then?

8. Meanwhile, council staff are getting a flat £1,290 this statutory year (with the first nine months’ worth arriving this month, as it can’t be awarded until all three unions have agreed [or, more likely, until they’ve balloted for strike action in Sep/Oct then failed to achieve quorum on the returns]), following on from a flat £1,920 for the previous two years. Next year’s offer will likely be made around February.

9. I’m sure unions will kick a stink. Wouldn’t be doing their job if they didn’t

10. Insulting

    Looks like it’s everyone back out to the picket lines soon then

11. Because what government employees (who, lets not forget have had real-terms pay cuts for years) is 5 years of inflation matching pay rises before the real-terms cuts begin again.

    Ah well, it’s a good way to ensure strikes and no one of ability in the civil services is guess, which will make it easier to privatise for more money, so there’s that.

12. A poor pay rise is effectively a pay cut. If they don’t want to give wages increases that keep up with the cost of living then they need to do a lot more to reduce the cost of living; tackle the gouging and profiteering of rentals and house prices, transport, water and energy bills, etc. People shouldn’t be getting worse and worse off, year after year, while working in the in the same essentials jobs supporting the state; health, education, transport, public services.

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