PAY FORUM 2012: BUILDING INTELLIGENCE
AND NEGOTIATING CHANGE

9.00

REGISTRATION

9.30

OPENING REMARKS FROM CHAIR

Gail Cartmail, Assistant General Secretary, Unite

9:35

OPENING ADDRESS

Frances O’Grady, Deputy General Secretary, TUC

9:55

PAY PROSPECTS FOR 2012

Alastair Hatchett, Head of Pay Services, IDS

10:25

ECONOMIC PROSPECTS

Nicola Smith, Chief Economist, TUC

10:50

QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION

11:00

COFFEE

11:15

INEQUALITIES AND THE WIDENING PAY GAP

Danny Dorling, University of Sheffield

11:50

THE PAY NEGOTIATOR’S TOOL BOX SESSION A: BUILDING INTELLIGENCE

• Measuring the cost of living: CPI and RPI 
  Richard Exell, Senior Policy Officer, TUC

• Maximising pay intelligence
  Ken Mulkearn, Editor, IDS Pay Report

• Company financial intelligence
  Jim McAuslan, General Secretary, Balpa

1:00

LUNCH

2:00

THE PAY NEGOTIATOR'S TOOL BOX SESSION B: CHALLENGING MARKET-BASED PAY, ZERO PAY INCREASES AND THE RATE FOR THE JOB

• In finance 
  Bernadette Fisher, UNITE

• In telecoms  
  Andy Kerr, CWU

• In the civil service  
  Sue Ferns, PROSPECT

3:00

AFTERNOON TEA

3:15

CHALLENGING THE FRAGMENTATION OF BARGAINING

• The challenge of pay fragmentation in the public sector, outsourcing, agency staff, abolition of the school support staff pay body, staffing and pay in free schools.
• Challenges to pay bargaining in the private sector, agency staff, and the new employers challenges to pay for skills in construction.

Led by Karen Jennings, Assistant General Secretary, UNISON

Speakers:
Andrew Morris, Assistant Secretary for Pay and Pensions, NUT   
Phil Davis, National Secretary, GMB

16.15

CLOSE OF CONFERENCE