[Branch meetings of the National Association of Probation…]
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Branch meetings of the National Association of Probation Officers are to be asked in the next week or so to ratify an agreement on pay reached by the union's Joint Negotiating Committee and management.
NAPO was committed to seek a 14% rise-but as yet no details of the recommended settlement have been released. It seems certain that the deal will not exceed the Lib-Lab government's 10% pay limit.
However steps are to be taken to abolish the single salary scale-which in the past has compelled NAPO members seeking improved salaries to go for promotion to senior grades.
This change of policy was bitterly opposed by right wing elements in the NAPO NEC and by chairman Maurice Brogden, but carried at the union's recent Annual General Meeting.
So too were a series of motions condemning • the bureaucratic dictatorship by Brogden and the NEC and opening the door to wider discussion of trade union and political issues.
These moves by NAPO members to assert control over their leaders must be followed up by the construction of a leadership prepared to struggle against wage control for the improvement of pay and conditions.