Three-year deal at Rolls-Royce Rotherham


The Unite general union has negotiated a deal guaranteeing a minimum pay increase of 17% over three years, at the Rolls Royce Advanced Blade Casting Facility (ABCF) in Rotherham. 


The deal will benefit about 120 staff below management-level, and is “one of the largest deals that Rolls Royce has agreed in recent years,” the union said. 


The package involves an increase in grade salary ranges and pay points of 2.8% backdated to 1 March. The second and third stages of the agreement due in March 2018 and March 2019 apply an increase based on the mean average of the November, December and January RPI figures, with a minimum underpin of 2.5%.


In addition, fixed shift allowances will increase by £300 to £600 a year which equates to about 8% over the three- year period, the union says. 


Unite regional officer Doug Patterson said the company had “finally accepted what Unite had been saying for some time that paying the lowest rates in the [Rolls-Royce] group was contributing significantly to the high rate of attrition.” 


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