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By October 2022, while preparing for pay negotiations for Pay 2023, we were still advocating for NatWest to award a fair pay rise to the workers they had chosen to leave behind. This newsletter gave an update on a collective…
We made the decision to launch the Pay 2023 campaign earlier than usual in order to negotiate early implementation of an interim pay rise. At this point, the NatWest’s pay settlement for Pay 2022 had been found to be severely…
Less than three months after the implementation of the 2022 pay rise, NatWest were forced to cave to pressure from Unite and implement an unprecedented out of cycle pay rise. The Unite demand had been for a pay rise for…
You might think that in the midst of a potentially devastating cost of living crisis that a responsible employer would act quickly to intervene and come to the aid of the workers they relied on. Sadly, this was not the…
By June 2022, living costs were rising at an alarming rate and beginning to seriously impact workers at NatWest Group following a business as usual pay rise earlier that year. Earlier that summer, Unite negotiators at Lloyds Banking Group successfully…
Negotiations for Pay 2022 began in late 2021 and carried over into the new year. As always, Unite’s pay claim called for a fair pay rise for all workers. The bank’s offer saw a small portion of the bargaining unit…
In the ballot of Unite members, the Pay 2021 pay offer was backed by the majority of NatWest members. However, feedback to Unite representatives suggested a high degree of discontent with many workers stating that they felt left behind and…
Negotiations for Pay 2021 took place in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and the early signs of a looming cost of living crisis. The bank’s position remained that restraint was the order of the day. The negotiated pay offer…
For Pay 2021, the impact of COVID-19 was a key influence. Economic uncertainty was beginning but the cost of living crisis that would follow had not yet started in earnest. This was the first of several times that Unite requested…
When it became clear that the COVID-19 pandemic would impact the United Kingdom, Unite began working with NatWest Group to agree the support and safeguards needed to support both the health, safety and wellbeing of workers as well as their…