Under a Labour government the NHS and the dedicated people that work for it would at long last receive the proper investment and respect they deserve.
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NHS cleaners win pay parity battle at Basildon Hospital
Outsourced staff were transferred back in house two years ago, but kept on minimum wage
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Bolton hospital staff to stage 48-hour strike for pay parity
Strike by ‘subco’ staff will start on 11 October
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NHS Earnings Max – get your resources on the UNISON Organising Space
Make sure your NHS employer is getting it right when it comes to our members’ take-home pay
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NHS pause of ‘subcos’ long overdue
This whole policy has been a damaging distraction. Valuable resources that could have gone on improving care have been wasted.
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Bolton members vote to strike over pay equality
Industrial action vote follows offer of 2% – well below Agenda for Change agreement – for workers transferred to NHS subco
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UNISON launches national staff and patient safety survey
Nurses, midwives, healthcare assistants, NHS students, ambulance workers, therapists, and administrative, facilities and technical staff across the UK are being asked to record how their shift goes…Read more…
Get ready for UNISON’s annual NHS staff survey
The survey aims to take a snapshot of life working in the NHS on a single day – and this year, it’s open to all health service staff
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‘Impressive mandate’
NHS staff in York will hold a 48-hour strike over a proposal to transfer them to a wholly owned subsidiary designed to avoid paying tax. Unite, with 100,000 members in the health service,…Read more…
NHS England right not to make flu jab compulsory
While it makes sense for staff to be encouraged to get the flu jab, no-one should feel that they have no option but to have it
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UNISON calls on Salisbury NHS trust to rethink wholly owned subsidiary plans
UNISON warns that outsourcing hospital staff will create two-tier workforce as trust starts a month of consultations
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‘Wholly inadequate’
Unite the union has described a pay offer made to the union’s nursing members working on Jersey as wholly inadequate. Unite has described the proposals as being overly complicated and that the…Read more…
‘Think again’ UNISON tells North East health trust over subco plans
Packed Teesside meeting highlights health staff’s anger and worry of plans to hand them over to a private company
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Bolton hospital workers’ pay ballot opens
Voting papers dispatched today in vote over action on pay parity
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Bolton hospital workers to ballot on action for pay parity
Wholly-owned subsidiary pays staff less than directly-employed workers after failing to implement NHS pay rise
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Do you know a health hero and want to make sure they’re recognised?
Nominations for the 2018 Our Health Heroes, honouring the vital work done by NHS support staff, are now open and close on 16 September
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Yorkshire hospitals strike called off after trust hats privatisation plan
Trust announced that it has scrapped plans to create a wholly-owned subsidiary after angry response at staff meetings
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‘Short-sighted decisions’
Some temporary agency workers have been found to be working for the NHS for more than a decade at a time, in the process wasting limited health service resources, new research has found. A…Read more…
Leadsom’s ‘ironic’ early years care ‘boost’
Unite has branded Tory plans to boost early years care services “ironic” given the party has spent years running them down. Tory MP Andrea Leadsom, who has been appointed chair of a new…Read more…
Meet our NHS
UNISON spent a day with hospital staff in Watford – and discovered the rainbow coalition of European-born workers who are making the NHS tick
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