Strike averted at NPL
14 May 2010 by Evoluted New Media
A last minute resolution has been offered to Prospect members at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) – equivalent to a 1.5% pay increase.
A last minute resolution has been offered to Prospect members at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) – equivalent to a 1.5% pay increase.
Over 82% of NPL members has rejected a previous offer of 0%, and were planning industrial action on 20th May, but a meeting between Prospect – the largest union in the UK representing professional engineers – and NPL management has opened voting on whether to accept the offer.
“Our members had given us a clear mandate to achieve a consolidated pay increase and we are pleased that, even at the eleventh hour, NPL has put forward a consolidated offer we can put to members,” said negotiations office Bob King.
Members will now have the chance to vote on the offer in a ballot due to close on 28th May, and all industrial action has been suspended while the ballot takes place. King said they are recommending the offer as a pragmatic solution to pay for 2010.
“We believe the offer is reasonable in the circumstances despite inflation running over 4%,” he said, “We have to balance the needs of the laboratory with those of our members’ increased living costs.”
