Joint Trade Union Pay Claim for 2007/8

The joint trade unions have submitted their pay claim for employees working in English colleges to the AoC.  The highlights are :

• For all staff a significant percentage increase on all pay scales and allowances including some element of a flat rate payment to take account of low pay. This increase should be in excess of the current rate of inflation and achieve full parity with schoolteachers’ pay taking into account the additional allowances awarded to classroom teachers.
• Starting salaries for management and leadership staff to be at least equivalent to that for leadership posts in schools (£34,938 in September 2007) and colleges in Wales.
• An agreed joint strategy to ensure the implementation of modernised pay arrangements in all colleges.
• Agreement to commence negotiations on a national agreement on workloads and work-life balance.
• A maximum 35 hour week.
• Minimum 30 hours a year paid training entitlement for all staff provided with release from normal duties to ensure no addition to existing workload.

For details of the full claim click here.

The joint unions are ACM, ATL, GMB, T&G, UCU and Unison.