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New deal for screen-printing industry


KEY DETAILS

Pay award: 2.8%, subject to minimum cash underpin

Employees covered (nos.): screen printers, technicians and production artists (approximately 4,000)

Effective date: 1 January 2004

The national minimum rates applicable to workers employed by the member companies of the Screen Printing Association have increased by the greater of 2.8% or £6.50 a week for those on grades 1 to 3. The settlement, negotiated with printing and paper union GPMU, increases the rates of those at the bottom of the four-grade pay structure by the greater of 2.8% or £7 a week.