Teachers to be offered three-year pay deal
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Your support makes all the difference.The Government is planning to award teachers a three-year pay deal in a bid to head off a damaging conflict over public sector salaries.
Estelle Morris will this week write to the School Teachers Review Body to tell them that she plans to break with tradition and negotiate a salary agreement stretching beyond the next election.
The Education Secretary will be the first spending minister to press ahead with a three-year deal since the last election but she is likely to be followed by other departments including health.
The move is designed to give teachers greater financial stability and to head off a bruising clash with the unions over public sector pay at Trades Union Congress annual conference in the autumn. The teachers pay settlement will be introduced from next April and will run until March 2006.
The Government is concerned that public sector workers, particularly in London and the South-east of England have been disadvantaged financially and are unable to afford spiralling house prices.
The deal expected to be announced this week, follows a three-year package agreed with 400,000 health workers two years ago.
Council workers are expected to be offered a similar package to try to head off a strike over pay and conditions.
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