Mandate Trade Union secures 2.5% pay increase for more than 3,000 Marks and Spencer staff

Friday 27 April 2012

Mandate Trade Union has today confirmed that 80% of their members in Marks & Spencer have voted in favour of the proposed pay deal secured by the union. The pay agreement – which arose from direct bargaining between Marks & Spencer management and its unions – will mean that 3,000 Marks & Spencer staff will receive a 2.5% pay increase from April 2012.

Mandate Divisional Organiser, Lorraine O’Brien, explained that over the past two weeks, the union’s members were balloted on the terms of the pay deal and voted in support of the ag