Blog: Why won ’ t the chancellor resolve the NHS strike?

UNISON’s industrial action in the NHS intensifies this week. Today is our third day of strikes this winter in England, and NHS staff in Northern Ireland will be out on Thursday. Ambulance and hospital staff are walking out again over the government’s failure to deliver fair pay. Today’s morning news bulletins are already featuring our picket lines, and our head of health, Sara Gorton, was on breakfast news helping to get our #PutNHSPayRight message out to the public. We’re also in the middle of re-balloting ambulance branches that fell just short of the government’s draconian ballot thresholds in our ballot last year. If you’re a member working at Bridgewater Community Healthcare Trust, East Midlands Ambulance Service, East of England Ambulance Service, Great Ormond Street, Liverpool Women’s Hospital, NHS Blood and Transplant, South Central Ambulance Service, South East Coast Ambulance Foundation Trust, Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust, West Midlands Ambulance Service or Welsh Ambulance Services, make sure you look out for your postal ballot paper, vote ‘yes’, and return it as soon as possible. Getting more ‘yes’ votes from our members in the ambulance service will build more pressure on the government to put a pay offer on the table to resolve the dispute. But the man who seems to be blocking this is the Chancellor of the Exchequer. It’s within Jeremy Hunt’s power to find the money to deliver a fair pay increase. He knows this is ...
Source: UNISON meat hygiene - Category: Food Science Authors: Tags: General secretary's blog News NHS nhs strikes Put NHS pay right strikes industrial action Source Type: news