According to pay analysts, after rising from 2 to 2.5%, the median pay settlement remains at this level, while inflation remained at 2.8%. In spite of the union campaign organized by the TUC to call for higher wages (Britain needs a pay rise) because of the recovery, the outcome union negotiations is still lukewarm.
The agreements which the unions have been keen to shout loudest about are those where strike action (or its threat) has resulted in significantly improved pay offers. Eight hundred Unite members at Babcock Marine on the Clyde gained a 2.7% pay rise after they undertook a two hour strike of the whole workforce and then a rolling programme of one hour strikes across the sites every 24 hours (along with an overtime ban and a work to rule). This was the first industrial action at the company for 42 years.
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