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Local government: three-year deal

Key details

Increase: 8.9% over three years

Employees covered (nos.): local government service workers (1,300,000)

Date: 1 April 2004

All three major local government unions - UNISON, the Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU) and the GMB - have voted to accept the local government employers' long-term pay deal worth 8.9% over three years. It covers 1.3 million local government workers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.