CS members working for the Met Police, including Police Community Support Officers, Traffic Wardens, 999 Operators and admin support staff, have overwhelmingly rejected a below inflation pay offer in a pay ballot.
Over 95% of members voting in the ballot rejected the below inflation offer of 2.25%. With the retail price index measure of inflation at 4.2% the pay deal represents a pay cut in real terms. Staff are angry over the insistence of Met Police management to remain within the government's public sector pay limit, even though for the fifth year running there has been a massive underspend on the police staff budget.
With members of other unions in the Met Police also rejecting the pay offer, this is the first time in nearly three decades that the Met Police unions have been in dispute over pay in the Met Police.
Commenting, Mark Serwotka, PCS general secretary, said: "This massive vote to reject this pay offer illustrates the strength of feeling amongst hardworking staff, who aren't prepared to accept a pay cut in real terms. With the Met Police spending £15 million on consultants, £17 million on agency workers and £22 million on an unwanted and unnecessary reorganisation of HR, staff are angry that they can only find a paltry 2.25% pay increase this year for its staff. Coming at a time when everyone is working extra hard to counter the continuing security threat in the capital, Met Police management need to recognise the important role that staff play by paying a fair wage or there is a very real possibility of a ballot for industrial action."
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