Contractors raise pay offer to avert engineering construction strike

Engineering construction contractors have upped their final pay offer to head off a threatened national strike.
Employers signed up to the National Agreement for the Engineering Construction Industry have come up with better offer of a 10% rate rise in January, followed by a 5% rise in 2025.
It improves on the 8.5% and 3.5% final offer rejected by 92% of workers triggering plans for strike ballots among Unite and GMB union members.The agreement covers nearly 8,000 workers in the sector, with aro