The union representing Northern Ireland’s civil servants has branded a pay offer from the Department of Finance as an insult.
Nipsa (the Northern Ireland Public Service Alliance) said a proposed hike in pay of £552 for each worker is “the most derisory and insulting pay offer received by any group of workers” while also hinting that strike action is imminent.
“In the midst of a cost of living crisis where everyone is struggling to make ends meet, a pay offer of that magnitude is just an insult and is significantly less than has been offered to any other public servants, even those their awards are also derisory,” the organisation’s General Secretary Carmel Gates, speaking in a recorded video posted on the Nipsa’s website, said.
