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Members of the Church of England's Synod, gather at the General Synod of the Church of England, at Church House in central London.
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CHURCH OF ENGLAND clergy submitted their first ever formal pay claim today as they struggle with the cost-of-living crisis, their union Unite said.
The union, which represents more than 2,000 clergy and lay officers in the church, has asked for an inflation-matching 9 per cent increase to the stipend that clergy receive from next April.
The claim, which would take the national minimum stipend to £29,340 a year, was submitted ahead of today’s meeting of the church’s remuneration & conditions of service committee, which sets the total.
‘People up and down the country are asking whose side is the Labour government on and coming up with the answer: not workers,’ Unite general secretary Sharon Graham says
Sharon Graham addresses the Unite policy conference after talks over the Birmingham bin strikes break down