Some of the lowest-paid staff at Prospect Park Hospital in Reading are taking strike action in a dispute about pay. The strike is over their employer ISS’s refusal to pay the workers a lump sum worth at least £1,655, which has already been given to hundreds of thousands of people employed directly by the NHS. […]
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“We are one team against racism, just as we are one team for patient care”
In the South East region South Central Ambulance Service spent £19m over the past financial year on private emergency services, with South East Coast Ambulance Service spending around £6m a year.
Almost three-quarters of health members voted to accept the offer with over 150,000 having their say
UNISON activists and organisers are on the road speaking to SCAS and SECAmb members about why we need to put NHS Pay right today
These ill-thought-out rules have worsened the staffing crisis hampering the NHS and social care and caused significant upset.
It’s nothing short of a tragedy that huge amounts of time and resources have been wasted.
UNISON is asking for the government to provide a decent pay rise to all NHS staff. We’re pushing for a £2000 pay increase for all employees, regardless of their role. But there’s another aspect to pay that easy to overlook – pensions. Although you pay a percentage of your earnings into the scheme and this […]
UNISON members on the Isle of Wight have been getting equipped to support themselves and branch members
This week marked a whole year since the country went into lockdown as COVID-19 surged across the UK. In that year, we have seen the government repeatedly mismanage the situation, ignoring the Govt advisory group SAGE warnings until they had no option but to act. Over 126,000 lives have been lost. As the nation fell […]
UNISON members have won the battle to keep their NHS jobs, after threats to transfer workers to a wholly owned subsidiary were made in April 2019
Recruitment pledges must be backed by decent wage rise if NHS is to thrive
As we look forward to brighter days where our lives are no longer dominated by COVID, we will be picking up the pieces for many years to come
Commenting on the publication yesterday (Thursday) of the health and social care white paper, UNISON head of health Sara Gorton said: “Scaling back the damaging internal market that forces the NHS to compete against itself and the private sector can’t happen soon enough. “Eight years ago, the then government was warned its changes wouldn’t work and would […]
With over 100,00 deaths due to Covid in the UK, the emotional toll will be far-reaching and long lasting, both for the bereaved and UNISON members working through the pandemic