Higher Education workers to get 5% pay rise

Here is the news from the BBC! Our members in HE stand to get 5% as a result of a three year deal in which the final year was 2.5% or the RPI.

As has just been pointed out to me by one of the lucky recipients of this generosity here at the TUC though a 5% pay rise when prices are rising by 5% is really just standing still.

It only looks generous by comparison with the real terms pay cuts the rest of us are being offered. Tomorrow's meeting of the Executive of the trade union side of the NJC for local government workers could set itself the target of matching the pay offer in HE, but we'll also need a strategy to secure that improvement.