TPE: 2025 Pay - Members votes

Previously the company wrote to each of the 4 Collective bargaining groups separately with similar offers on pay although they had made it clear at the start of talks that they wouldn’t entertain the idea of Single table talks to include all of the bargaining groups as part of one set of negotiations/talks.

Therefore, the offers were made as 4 very separate offers to each of the 4 bargaining groups, namely the General Grades, Revenue Protection Managers, Operations Managers and TRU Customer Delivery Managers.

We then carried out a vote of members within each group and included a vote for our management grade members who sit outside of collective bargaining to ensure that they found the offer acceptable. As if they didn’t, we would still be entitled to consider a dispute and ballot them for industrial action, it was also clear from those members’ votes that if the pay offer for them is anything less than 3.4% then they would be prepared to be balloted for industrial action with 66% of them voting to express that desire.

The outcomes of the various votes are as below:

I have sent letters to the company to clarify the outcomes for those groups covered by collective bargaining and where the offers have been rejected, asked for a meeting to discuss the outcome and see if there is a way forward for those groups.

Where the groups have accepted the offer, I have asked for clarity on when the pay rises will be awarded and also how the productivity talks might proceed.