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Average ambulance response times in England last month were the longest on record and more than half of people at major A&Es had to wait longer than four hours – the worst delays since records began in 2011. The new figures also show that the number of people waiting more than 12 hours to been […]
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Health unions won’t be submitting evidence to the NHS pay review body (NHSPRB) for the next wage round while the current industrial disputes remain unresolved, it has been announced today (January 11). Instead, the 14 unions – representing more than one million ambulance staff, nurses, porters, healthcare assistants, physiotherapists and other NHS workers in England […]
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Only a day after failed talks between health ministers and trade unions on health, rail and teacher disputes, the government today (January 10) published a sinister bill that aims to severely curtail the democratic right to strike. Condemned by trade unions as unworkable and undemocratic, proposals in the bill would mean some trade union members […]
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Unite has slammed the latest government talks with unions held on Monday (January 9) as ‘an insult’ to members. Speaking just after talks with health secretary Steven Barclay on Monday afternoon, Unite national lead officer Onay Kasab told reporters that talks had “not [gone] well”. He added, “Unfortunately, the government have missed yet another opportunity […]
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Just before Christmas around 1,000 Unite Welsh Ambulance Service workers announced they would be staging industrial action.
The members, including paramedics, EMTs and emergency call handling staff, voted by 88 per cent to strike. Unite will be announcing the strike dates for Wales shortly.
They will join over 1,600 ambulance workers and Unite members in England, who took strike action on December 21.
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This year throughout the festive period, UniteLive will highlight our top ten worst bosses of the year – employers so miserly and mean that they’d put Scrooge himself to shame. On our last day of featuring Scrooge bosses, we look at the government. It is arguably the most Scrooge boss of all. That’s because it’s […]
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Writing in the Daily Telegraph today health secretary Stephen Barclay said, “We now know that the NHS contingency plans will not cover 999 calls. ambulance unions have taken a conscious choice to inflict harm on patients”. In response, Sharon Graham, Unite general secretary said, “To say that ambulance unions have taken a conscious choice to […]
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On the eve of the strike of ambulance paramedics on Wednesday (December 21), Unite’s general secretary says it’s clear that the health minister Steven Barclay can’t resolve the dispute so it’s time for the prime minister to intervene. England should follow the Scottish example of negotiation, increasing the offer and ending the strike. Unite general […]
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As Unite paramedics join thousands more health staff on strike on Wednesday (December 21), no one can deny that NHS staff have long deserved a decent pay rise. Their real-terms pay, after all, has fallen off a cliff edge under successive Conservative governments over the last 12 years – since 2010, the TUC estimates that […]
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‘Don’t waste the weekend’, says Unite chief as ambulance workers set to join striking nurses on December 21. The general secretary of Unite the union, Sharon Graham, has today (December 16) called on the Conservative government not to ‘waste the weekend’ but to convene NHS pay talks or see the strikes spread. Unite’s members across […]
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Around one in seven patients are still waiting over an hour to be handed over to A&E staff at hospitals, the latest figures show. According to NHS England, an additional third of patients waited longer than 30 minutes, with nearly 30,000 patients waiting a half hour or longer across all hospital trusts last week. The […]
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More than 1,600 workers at the West Midlands, North West and North East ambulance service trusts will strike on Wednesday, December 21, 2022, their union Unite announced on Tuesday (December 6). Unite says that the action is a `stark warning’ to the government that it must stem the crisis engulfing the NHS following ministers’ deliberate […]
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More ambulance service workers in England have voted for industrial action Unite announced on Wednesday (November 30). With workers voting by up to 92 per cent to take action, strikes look set to begin ahead of Christmas. Unite will announce details in the coming days. Unite’s ambulance service members say such is the decay across […]
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