Today the NICS has published the Government’s 2022/23 pay offer to civil servants.
This offer of £552 on each pay point is without doubt the most offensive and derisory offer that you will ever have received. The offer represents a pay cut for every civil servant.
It is also shameful that once again special measures had to be taken to bring Administrative Assistants up to the living wage.
Civil servants have received a significantly lower pay offer than those made to other public servants, so again, we have to ask the question - why are civil servants less valued by the government than other workers?
As previously highlighted, if we wish to force the hand of the government, which is coming under pressure from other trade unions, then civil servants now need to join the action by those workers.
If we want a fair pay rise, we will have to be in the fight.
For that reason, the Civil Service Executive Committee is recommending rejection of the offer and are proposing that we ballot for industrial action. The industrial action is likely to take the form of strike action and action short of strike action.
Maria Morgan
Deputy General Secretary