So whats the betting the Tories use the NHS pay rise as a tool to pick a fight with, say for example teachers, when they look for a massive 2% rise!!
I thought they wanted 5% which is shocking given the effective freeze teaching has had too.
6.5%, I dream of 6.5%, you lucky, lucky bastard (read with Palin accent).
We had a 2% last year, but we didn't really because 1% was a one off payment., more cleverly worded spin. Back to the 1% next year.
I joined in 1994 and pay was circa 18000. New recruits are on a couple of grand more now 25 years later. No matter what lovely platitudes they may air publicly, they are privately diminishing the public sector in so many ways
Yes they are; I’ve been top of my pay scale for 10 years now - despite my “generous” 1% pay rise and last year's one off, non-pensionable 1% I’ve had my Special Priority Payment & Competency Related Threshold payment removed, leaving me worse off now than in 2010. And that’s ignoring the effects of inflation..!
Also, the whole nhs offer of giving up a day of leave in return for this increase seems to me mis-reported; surely that was 3 days leave? If they’re gonna compound the rise and give the total why not be honest and apply the same method to the day off - it was gonna be 1 day per year (forever) as far as I could tell - not just 7.5hrs as a one off..!
