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The outsourced workers have won a pay rise of over 14%, an extra week’s leave and the same sick pay as their directly-employed NHS colleagues

The current health secretary says nurses can like it or lump it on the below-inflation pay offer, but that’s not good enough. NHS staff – and the service itself – need much better

On Thursday October 27 UNISON, is launching a ballot of health workers for industrial action on pay.

UNISON has written to the Welsh government confirming it will ballot health workers for strike action over their derisory pay award.

Letters advising more than two hundred NHS employers across England that health staff, including paramedics, midwives, theatre staff, occupational therapists, porters and nurses, are to be balloted for strike action have been sent, says UNISON. Strike ballots for England, Wales and Northern Ireland are due to begin on 27 October and the union says this […]

Health workers will soon have their say on industrial action after the latest derisory pay offer from Welsh government.

Health workers facing the full force of the cost-of-living crisis are being called on to support industrial action over pay, says UNISON.

UNISON has launched the next stage of its NHS pay campaign, which is urging members to Pledge Yes for the NHS.

UNISON launches next stage of its NHS pay campaign, in lead up to industrial action ballot

After joining forces within the union's North West region, they’ve forced Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust to reward and recognise this. The campaign began in 2016, when […]

All Health workers in Wales must receive an above inflation pay rise which reflects the devastating impact of the cost-of-living-crisis says UNISON.

As temperatures reached unprecedented levels across the UK, UNISON East Midlands were busy keeping our NHS heroes cool. On Monday 18 and Tuesday 19 July, UNISON East Midlands despatched ice cream vans to some of the biggest hospitals in the region to give our hardworking NHS workers some respite from the heatwave gripping the country. […]

The NHS across the UK is celebrating 74 years since its creation and this is even more poignant in Wales.

Thousands of Essex health staff face an effective pay cut as hospitals bosses plan to reintroduce parking charges, UNISON warns today. Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust (MSEFT), which runs Broomfield, Basildon and Southend hospitals, has told UNISON officials it wants to reintroduce staff parking charges from 1 August. Charges were scrapped during the […]

A health worker in South Wales has been left with no choice other than to re-mortgage her home as the ever-deepening cost-of-living crisis tightens its grip