Health conference debates pay

Images: Jess Hurd Pay talk dominated conference business this morning (Tuesday) at UNISON’s annual health conference in Bournemouth. The morning started with general secretary Christina McAnea taking the opportunity to invite representatives from all health branches who secured a strike mandate in their pay disputes over the last year, to take to the stage, where they received an impassioned standing ovation from delegates (pictured above). Conference business then started with an emergency motion on the recent NHS pay offer and the response of the health unions to it. Moving the motion, Wilma Brown, chair of the health service group executive (SGE), said the motion was “about the months of hard work and sacrifice it takes to run successful action. “It’s about the members willing to lose a day’s pay to go on strike. I want to pay tribute to everyone involved in building to strike action.” She spoke of the decisive results in UNISON’s consultation on the new offer, which returned a 74% accept vote on a turnout of over 50%. She said that this year, at conference, it was “essential to be honest. First of all about the offer, because you wont be able to find anyone here who says that this is all health workers deserve.” But also highlighting that “we wont know for certain what will happen next year until all unions have declared their results. But this motion lays out our plan.” She also called on conference to “build on what we’ve learned in getting ma...
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