Sacking staff won’t get patients to hospital more quickly
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Government’s desperate strike move won’t solve any NHS problems
Sacking staff won’t get patients to hospital more quickly
The article Government’s desperate strike move won’t solve any NHS problems first appeared on the UNISON National site.
NHS strikes resume
After roundly rejecting the government’s pay offer, Unite members at Guys and St Thomas’ Trust in South London, and the Yorkshire Ambulance Trust, will strike on Monday (May 1). Meanwhile, Unite members at South Central, South East Coast and West Midlands ambulance trusts alongside workers at Christies NHS Foundation Trust, Christies Pathology Partnership, East Lancashire […]
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Health conference asks why ambulance staff aren’t an emergency service
Conference debates ambulance and privatisation issues and discusses how to make the union ‘ballot ready’
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Unite response to NHS pay offer
Responding to the government’s new pay offer for NHS workers in England, Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said, “Following months and months of unnecessary delay, the government finally gets into the negotiating room. They need to take full responsibility for their dither and delay, which has caused unnecessary pain to both staff and patients in […]
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Put NHS pay right – NHS strike rolling report
Follow here for news and views on the latest day of NHS industrial action
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It’s time the PM ditched the pretence and came clean with the public, says UNISON
If the government has no intention of resolving the NHS dispute, the prime minister must come clean
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NEC hears of ongoing industrial action across the union
Fair pay and fighting the Westminster government’s anti-strike bill are also discussed by UNISON’s ruling executive
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‘Look at the bigger picture’
Thousands of ambulance workers, Unite members, carried on their fight for fair pay and for the future of the NHS this week, as they took their third day of strike action on Monday (February 6). Unite general secretary Sharon Graham joined ambulance members on the picket line in Cardiff, where she urged both the UK […]
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Ambulance strikes latest
Unite members working in the ambulance service in England and Wales again took strike action today (February 6). For ambulance workers in England, this is their third day of taking strike action, with previous strike days having taken place in December and January. Members in Wales took an additional day of action in January alongside […]
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Blog: Government inaction just leads to more action
The pay crisis that our members are dealing with won’t go away if the government sticks to their current game-plan of ignoring workers and their unions
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Quotes from the picket line
On Wednesday (February 1) more than half a million workers from unions across sectors took strike action, including Unite members employed as bus workers for Abellio and many others. As Unite ramps up strike action in many disputes, UniteLive will bring you a selection of quotes straight from the picket line. Below are quotes from […]
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Digging in won’t solve pay dispute, nor get the NHS back on its feet
New ambulance strike date announced for 10 February
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Government NHS investment ignoring ‘elephant in the room’
Responding to the government’s announcement today (January 30) that it intends to invest an additional £1 billion in the NHS to increase the number of hospital beds and ambulances, Unite warned that it is again failing to address ‘the elephant in the room’ of low pay, huge vacancies and experienced staff quitting the service. Unite […]
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‘We can’t afford to let the NHS sink’
Widespread public support for the latest Unite ambulance strikes was apparent from the start – as cars and lorries relentlessly honked their horns driving past a picket line in Chorley in the early hours of Monday morning, the taxi driver who dropped off your UniteLive correspondent likewise offered his solidarity. “I hope you guys win […]
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Ambulance workers take strike action
Thousands of Unite members, ambulance workers, took strike action across England and Wales on Monday (January 23). Unite general secretary Sharon Graham joined dozens of striking workers at a picket line in Chorley in the North West of England. Commenting from the picket line, Graham said, “The Prime Minister is missing in action. “It’s been […]
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Fresh ambulance strikes announced
Unite has announced fresh dates in an escalation of the ambulance workers dispute. Members of Unite will stage ten further strikes over the coming weeks*. Additional dates could be announced in the comings days. The announcement of fresh strike comes ahead of the latest day of industrial action with Unite’s ambulance workers set to walk […]
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‘This is ultimately about our patients’
More than 1,000 ambulance workers, Unite members, took strike action on Thursday (January 19) in their fight to save the NHS from total collapse. Unite ambulance workers in Wales overwhelmingly voted to take strike action – by a margin of 88 per cent – over a pay offer that is well below inflation during an […]
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Unite set to announce further ambulance strikes
Unite, the union representing 100,000 NHS workers, is set to announce further and broadening strike action among its ambulance members. The union’s ambulance Organising Professional Committee (OPC) will meet later on Wednesday (January 18) to set new dates which could see strike action throughout February and March as the government continues to refuse to negotiate […]
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‘The government has lost the plot’
The government’s new anti-strike bill – which is now being rushed through Parliament – had its second reading in the Commons on Monday (January 16). Unite and other unions have lambasted the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill as an anti-democratic power grab by the government which will severely curtail the right of union members to […]
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