Stormont public sector pay offer
3 releases from 3 parties, 5 March 2024 to 11 March 2024.
Each party’s website press releases, in order of publication
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No To Executive: Public Sector Work Worth More
People Before Profit calls on public sector workers to vote no on the Stormont Executive's pay offer, arguing a 5 percent rise is effectively 1 percent once 4 percent inflation is taken into account. It also criticises the non-consolidated £1,500 payment as a response to a Translink strike threat.
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Education Minister welcomes progress on teachers’ pay negotiations
Education Minister Paul Givan, DUP, welcomes a formal pay offer to the five main teaching unions covering 2021 to 2023, which would raise the starting salary to £30,000 and end ongoing industrial action.
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Sheehan welcomes teachers’ pay offer
Sinn Féin MLA Pat Sheehan welcomes the Education Minister's pay offer to teachers, calling it significant progress and urging teaching unions to be given time to discuss the detail with their members.
Parties with no matching press release found on their website
- Alliance: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website.
- UUP: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website.
- SDLP: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website.
- TUV: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website.
- Green Party: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website.
- Aontú: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website – coverage for this period is incomplete (could not be checked), so a statement may have been missed.
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