Put NHS pay right to stop health staff in London quitting amid cost-of-living ‘apocalypse’, says UNISON 

Wednesday 25 May 2022 For immediate release Put NHS pay right to stop health staff in London quitting amid cost-of-living ‘apocalypse’, says UNISON  UNISON has today (Wednesday) written to Sajid Javid urging action on pay to stop the exodus of health service staff as they face ‘a cost-of-living apocalypse’. Health workers across London have also written to […]

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Another victory for domestic staff at Great Ormond Street Hospital

Thanks to ongoing negotiations with UNISON, yesterday the Great Ormond Street Foundation Trust announced that domestic staff who have transferred back in to direct employment by the Trust, and who were previously formally employed by OCS, will now have the same annual leave entitlement as those on Agenda for Change terms and conditions.

Health workers in London urge local MPs to back early pay rise for exhausted staff and to protect the NHS 

Thursday 5 November 2020 For immediate release Health workers in London urge local MPs to back early pay rise for exhausted staff and to protect the NHS  Hundreds of health staff across London – including nurses, paramedics, cleaners, domestics and porters – are writing to the region’s 73 MPs asking them to back UNISON’s call for NHS staff to get an […]

Porters, cleaners and catering staff at Imperial Healthcare win fight to rejoin the NHS

A thousand porters, cleaners and catering staff at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust in London are celebrating after the contract officially came back in-house today (1 April). The staff – who work in the trust’s five hospitals across the capital – previously were employed by private contractor Sodexo who held the contract since 2015. The […]