Thanks for the hard work Bexley boys!!
I think we need to look at the document very closely. A big point in our arguments have been CPI, which is about 4.3%. Now looking at the table in the document on page 2, LAME's Level 4 and below are slightly up on CPI and level 5 and above clock in below CPI. (Now I gain because I am level 4 so no sour grapes and so on......)
So once again we get
less than the cost of living increase.
This is the first offer the company made after taking major pain during the PIA campaign, now call me a cynic but you wouldn't expect them to come back with the offer that suited us best.
I know that the EBA is a democratic vote, but the company knows they only have to please 51% of the members to get it up.