TPE: 2026 pay talks update

Whilst we have received 2026 Pay offers from the company for both Management and Non-management Grade members, we have an instruction for TSSA to guard against any unions or grades receiving more than our members. In the Management grades offer there is a current restriction for Customer Delivery Managers (CDM’s) that expresses that the Real Living Wage increase that they have already received in May would be taken into account before applying the 3.6% that is on offer. If this happened, then there would only be a minimal increase for these members after the negotiated rise.

TSSA is in dialogue with the company to see if they will remove that element of the offer so that CDM’s receive the full collectively bargained increase of 3.6% on top of their current pay. This is for several reasons:

1. We believe that all employees in the rail industry should be on a higher wage than the real living wage
2. Whilst Laudable we see the company’s decision to sign up to the Real Living Wage as being separate and distinct from the collectively bargained pay negotiations

We understand that members will want to resolve the pay for 2026, but we hope you understand that we want to ensure that everyone receives the same negotiated headline pay offer.

We have told the company that if they remove that element of the clause from the offer then we will be able to recommend the offer to members in a referendum, so we await their response.