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Eurest Pay 08

1st December 2008

During the course of negotiations the CWU managed to secure two increases to the 2.5 per cent originally offered by the company. The union also persuaded the company to extend the 3 per cent rise to a small group of particularly low-paid employees who had only recently secured a rise as a result of an increase to the minimum wage.
Assistant secretary Sally Bridge told the Voice: "This deal maintains the gap between the minimum wage and the lowest Eurest wage, but we're still concerned about low pay and it remains a CWU priority to address that.
"The 3 per cent achieved for CWU-represented grades this year - which compares to 2.5 per cent for management grades - only just scratches the surface of the low pay problem but has to be seen in the context of the financial constraints Eurest are under and the contract challenges that led to the company's initial insistence that it could only increase the overall pay pot by 2.5 per cent."