Police Staff Pay Bulletin No. 5
Police Staff Pay Bulletin No. 5
VOTE YES IN THE POLICE STAFF PAY BALLOT
By now you should have received your UNISON pay ballot paper at your home address. We have sent out over 30,000 ballots to members like you across England and Wales. UNISON is asking you to vote YES to industrial action to improve this year’s 1% pay offer.
If you have already voted that’s great, and thanks for sending back your completed ballot paper. Please do encourage your colleagues to vote as well. Talking about the ballot at work can really make a big impact, so please do discuss the issues with the people you work with.
Police staff have always delivered a good turn-out in previous ballots and UNISON is relying on you to deliver again now. It really is important that you vote, so that your voice can be heard.
So if you haven’t yet voted, or even if you haven’t yet made your mind up, please do vote. Your views are important to us. Without your vote, and support, UNISON cannot be as effective as we would like on your behalf. UNISON is standing up for police staff, but we can’t do it without you.
WHY SHOULD I VOTE?
We know that it is never easy to vote for industrial action. UNISON would never ask you to do this unless we believed that it was totally necessary. A strong YES vote will show the employers that we are prepared to defend your pay and protect your living standards.
UNISON appreciates that you are committed to your job, but the police employers and the government are taking your loyalty for granted.
They will not return to the negotiating table to improve the 1% offer unless we can show them that you are serious about defending your pay. The government will not change its policy on pay restraint voluntarily.
WHAT ARE THE FACTS?
• Due to inflation, the value of your pay has fallen by 13% since 2010. In plain terms, it buys you 13% less than it did four years ago.
• If current inflation and pay trends continue, your salary will have lost 30% of its value by 2018
• Holding back on pay has not saved a single one of the 19,000 police staff jobs which have been axed since 2010
• Average pay settlements in the private sector are now running at 2 to 2.5%. We are told that the economy is picking up. But you are not seeing any of the benefits.
SEE HOW MUCH PAY YOU HAVE LOST
UNISON has produced a police staff pay calculator to show you just how much money you have lost as a result of the pay freeze in 2011 and 2012 and the 1% pay rise last year. You can access the calculator by following this link: http://paycalculator.unison.org.uk/police-staff
Speak to your local UNISON representative for details of how to join or:
Call us FREE on 0800 171 2193
or join online at: www.joinunison.org
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