Our Ref: BR4/0001/CR
28th April 2023
Dear RMT Member
RATES OF PAY & CONDITIONS OF SERVICE 2023 – COLAS RAIL
The referendum of you and your colleagues over the company revised pay offer has concluded and the result is as follows:
Question: Do you accept the company’s offer?
Total votes cast202
Number voting YES115
Number voting NO87
To remind you, the offer that you and your colleagues voted on was as follows:
A 7% increase in basic salaries, effective from 1st April 2023
Increase in allowances which are percentage based, such as contracts with rostered nights, weekends, on‐call, etc., as well as the OTM additional weekend payments.
Your union’s National Executive Committee has noted the result and that the majority of members who have participated in the referendum have voted to accept the offer.
This improved offer, of course, was only secured through the determination of you and your colleague in taking strike action over three separate weekends which forced management back round the table to hold proper negotiations.
This therefore resolves pay negotiations for 2023 and I have written to the company to request that they implement the new pay rates as soon as possible.
Yours sincerely
Michael Lynch
General Secretary