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UNISON members vote overwhelmingly in favour of three year pay deal

This is just the beginning of better pay for NHS staff, conference delegates hear as they vote in favour of ‘biggest pay rise in 15 years’ and Agenda for Change reform

Members in England must decide whether to accept a three-year pay deal which comes with an extra £4.2bn worth of […]

‘The agreement would mean an end at last to the government’s self-defeating and unfair 1% pay cap,’ says union.

“Health workers are far from greedy but the expectations placed on them keep on rising while their pay has been […]

“But the NHS doesn’t exist in isolation, and rather than pick out one group of workers today, the government should be championing a decent pay rise for all public service employees […]

The NHS PRB, which covers all other staff in the health service also recommended a headline one per cent pay award in March. Both recommendations were constrained […]

UNISON writes to Jeremy Hunt to put case for ending the pay cap

Thursday 27 October 2016 Hard-pressed health service staff are turning to high-rate loans, pawning their belongings and visiting food banks as they struggle just to make ends meet, according to research by UNISON. Financial hardship has led to almost half (49%) of those who took part in a major survey to seek financial help from […]

UNISON puts the case for fair pay for the 2017/18 pay round

The government needs to inject £280m into the NHS by the end of the decade, or ministers will breach minimum wage laws, unions warn

And reporting that health workers in Northern Ireland currently have the lowest pay rates in UK, Ms McAnea added that this will be […]

Government warned: ‘if you come for them, we will take industrial action’

"So this 1% pay rise still falls way below what health workers need and deserve after years of pay cuts and freezes”. “Having said that, against a […]

Commenting on the announcement today (Tuesday) from NHS Pay Review Body of its proposals on pay for 2016/17, UNISON Head of Health Christina McAnea said: “It’s disappointing for NHS workers that the PRB has stuck to the artificial one per cent pay freeze imposed by the Chancellor. “Government pay policies since 2010 have seen most […]