Details of their final offer are available by clicking on the useful link on the right.

In early April, BT made an open offer of 2.7 per cent on the paybill for managers and professionals, which the union rejected. The reasons for this rejection are given below. Negotiations continue and an e-ballot of all members will be held at the end of this process. Non-members should join the union now to get a say in the process.

The union has rejected BT's offer. Members should understand and appreciate that this offer in no sense equates to an offer of a 2.7 percent pay increase for all. BT would want to distribute it via a matrix skewing available money towards those low in range whose performance is high. That would essentially mean that money that should be available to increase the pay of those in the middle of the range for their role profile at least in line with inflation (and by the way the current inflation rate is higher than 2.7) would in fact go to fund those paid below the right rate for their job. It would also inevitably mean that those above the mid range for their role would be most unlikely to see any increase at all. It also paradoxically is not enough to give those low in range for their role an increase to take them towards the rate for their job.

We are pressing BT to make an increased offer. We are also putting forward a number of proposals that may enable BT to tackle the very difficult legacies that have been created by the past MPG, PCG and PSG pay systems, including the problems of people paid far below the right rate for their job, people paid high in the range they have been mapped to, and the continuing equal pay problems, where women are paid broadly 10 percent less than men. Consequently these very difficult talks continue.