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Screen printing industry workers: Deal wipes out lowest grade

Key details

Pay award: rates increased by up to 2.8% for most employees, with lowest grade deleted

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

Effective date: 1 January 2006

The national minimum rates applicable to workers employed in member companies of the Digital and Screen Printing Association (DSPA) have increased by up to 2.8% for those on grades 1 to 3. The settlement, negotiated with the graphical, paper and media section of Amicus, also increases the rates of those at the bottom of the pay structure by 9.15% as a result of the deletion of grade 4.