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Unpaid overtime is a threat to your job, plain and simple. If you work before or after your official shift hours and do not claim it, the business assumes that any work you have completed was done within your contracted…
The two year deal was accepted by members with a comfortable majority seeing 84% of respondents back the Pay 2019 and 2020 pay offer. Within the context of the time and history of the company, this offer was undeniably embraced…
This newsletter published in December 2018 was a final push to drive members to vote in the pay ballot. While we allow non-members to complete our pay surveys as this allows the broadest possible spectrum of data and ultimately benefits…
Unite adjusted down their pay claim for 2019. In the previous year we had claimed for the greater of either £25 per week (£1,300 over the course of a year) or 5% for all workers. Our 2019 Fair Pay Claim…
When we came to research and write the Unite at NatWest Pay claim for Pay 2019, the bank (then known as RBS Group) had returned to profit for the first time since 2008 and had paid a modest dividend to…
In early 2018 NatWest Group, then known as RBS Group, published its annual report for 2017 showing the first profit since the 2008 global financial crisis. Shortly thereafter, they announced their first shareholder dividend since the crash. It was in…
NatWest Group, then known as RBS Group, returned to profit in 2017 for the first time since the global financial crisis of 2008. Rather than halt their branch closure programme, the bank chose to accelerate it. This announcement of a…
As with all pay offers, Unite members had the final say. The results show that there was widespread dissatisfaction with the bank’s final offer with over a third of voters rejecting the offer. This newsletter was first published in February…
The Pay 2018 negotiations concluded with an offer being put to members. While there were some high numbers in the matrices, the bank’s performance related pay approach utilised a bell curve which ensured that only very few workers received the…
As negotiations towards a solution for Pay 2018 progressed, the Unite team shared an update with members. You’ll notice that the figures in the Unite pay claim are extremely modest. This is an indicator of how low pay was in…