Boots Manufacturing: 3% basic increase

Approximately 800 production workers employed at Boots Manufacturing's Beeston site in Nottingham have agreed a pay and conditions settlement that improves basic rates by 3%, effective from 1 June 2007.

Shift allowances rise in line with the general award, and are now as follows:

• two-shift - £2,662 a year;
  
• two-shift (nine-day fortnights) - £2,395;
  
• three-shift - £3,624;
  
• permanent mornings - £820;
  
• permanent afternoons – £3,278;
  
• permanent nights – £4,349; and
  
• alternating days and nights – £2,174.