Reaching an acceptable agreement this year has been extremely challenging and I am certain this was achieved as a result of our members' support. I believe the agreement fairly rewards all members for their commitment.
I would like to thank Representatives, Branches Officials and members for their patience whilst negotiations took place.
The main features of the agreement are as follows
PAs pay increased by £25 per week from 1st Oct 07 providing a pay rise of 8.62%
POs / LAs salary increased by £1300 per annum from 1st Oct 07 providing pay rises of 6.88% / 6.73% respectively.
Crew pay to be increased initially by £24 per week from 1st Oct 07 providing a pay rise of 6.11% with a further increase of £3 per week from 1st April 08 providing a total pay rise of £27 per week, equivalent to 6.87%
LGV Drivers pay, including the allowance, to be increased by £35 per week from 1st Oct 07 providing a pay rise of 8.29% with a further increase of £5 per week from 1st April 08 providing a total pay rise of £40 per week, equivalent to 9.48%
A one hour reduction in the working week from 7th Jan 08 as follows
All crew - 37 hours net reduced to 36 hours net
PAs / POs / LAs (outside London ) 36 hours net reduced to 35 hours net
NOTE: Currently, PAs / POs / LAs based in London work 35 hours net.
Crew and LGV Night Workers Night Duty Allowance, where all 36 hours fall within the 19:00 / 07:15 NDA period, to be consolidated into basic pensionable pay from 7th Jan 08 providing for increased hourly pay rates and Scheduled Attendance payments of 33.99% and 37.25% respectively.
London Weighting to be increased for all grades from 1st July 07 to achieve parity with the Royal Mail rates, inclusive of the phased increases also applied in the Royal Mail Agreement of 5.4% from 1st Oct 07 and a further 1.5% from 1st April 08, providing the following overall increases:
23.74% for Inner London
35.73% for Outer London
Defined Area Pay of £38.23 per week to be introduced for Crew grades from 1st April 08 in Hemel Hempstead only (this resolves the anomaly whereby Royal Mail grades are currently paid a Defined Area Payment and Supply Chain Crew grades were not).
The Midway House Sunday Allowance will be increased for the 8 PAs in receipt of this allowance by the overall value of 23.82% by changing this allowance to be based upon 0.67% of the hourly pay rate. This has the potential of providing an additional increase of £250 per annum for each individual.
Scheduled Attendance rates for Crew will be increased overall by 9.84% by virtue of the combination of the pay rises and the introduction of the one hour reduction in the working week. This will provide for the following rates from 1st April 08:
Week day - £11.67 per hour
Saturday and Sunday - £15.17 per hour
All other allowances (other than hours related) will be increased by 6.2% from 1st Oct 07. This includes the following allowances:
Self Managed Unit
Supervisory
Call Out
Defined Area Pay
A new national productivity scheme with equal payments for all grades, based upon 50% of any cash savings above the staff cash budget, providing for two payments per year in November and May.
The table below provides a summary of the agreed pay increases effective from 1st April 2008.
As a consequence of the above, a National Briefing has been scheduled for
11.30am Monday 29th October 2007 at Room 2/3 CWU Headquarters
The following representatives are invited to this briefing:
Regional Secretaries
Divisional Representatives
Territorial Counter Representatives
Branch Secretaries (with members in Supply Chain)
Area Distribution Representatives (with responsibility in Supply Chain)
CIT Unit Representatives
POL Section Secretaries (with members in Supply Chain)
Following this briefing an individual membership ballot will be conducted to seek endorsement of the pay agreement details of which will be made available in due course.
For further information please contact nchilds@cwu.org
