Council pay negotiations and the case for retaining staff

Does negotiating pay work for women?

It did in the local-government negotiations Clarke recalls, where retaining good staff after an effective pay freeze was an argument for improving pay.

Alex Clarke recalls council pay negotiations in which women did obtain consideration of their pay. He was on the council side of those negotiations and regarded the risk of losing capable staff after an effective pay freeze as a practical reason to improve the employment package. Retaining efficient workers could reduce an organization's overall costs even when their pay rose. He connects that position to his own understanding of traditional conservatism as a response to liberalism that favors decisions grounded in circumstances over fixed ideology. His council experience supplies a specific example of negotiation working, with the result dependent on an employer's response to the case for retaining staff.