the only time we'd see significant pay rises is if we gave significant productivity increases, 'selling the family jewels*' was how someone put it earlier.
A few examples might be reduction in annual leave, individual rostering, longer hours or split shifts. would these be in return for extra spine points (and if so would that then be outside the RPI+0.5 cap) or would they be % increases (and therefore fall within the cap)?
*that may have been
crown jewels