Unite members have voted overwhelmingly to accept a five-year public sector pay deal, with the union confirming the result to the Gibraltar Government following the closure of its ballot on July 30 and despite a low turnout. “However for most of the public sector this pay solution delivers what is an unprecedented agreement that maintains the real terms value of pay over the course of the deal, whilst recovering the historic erosion in the real terms pay since the public sector pay increase in August 2019.” “The journey to this pay agreement started when Unite submitted a public sector pay claim in 2025 for 20%, the reaction to this claim was in some quarters quizzical and a view that this was unachievable.” “We now look forward to engaging positively with HMGOG on a plethora of non-public sector pay issues.” “Finally I would like to extend my thanks to the Unite Public Sector Pay Working Group who have engaged with and driven this agenda since the back-end of 2024 when we first started formulating the pay claim for 2025/26 and Unite’s members for their support, feedback and participation with the public sector pay process.”