Earlier this month (4 & 5 March), hundreds of Healthcare Assistants from University Hospital Lewisham and Queen Elizabeth Hospital gathered to celebrate a historic victory. After taking part in two rounds of industrial action (totaling five days) they secured fair rebanding and a back pay agreement that compensated them for years of working above their […]
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The threat of further strikes at hospitals in Lewisham and Greenwich has been lifted after healthcare staff secured a salary increase and a deal on back pay, says UNISON today (Thursday). Hundreds of healthcare support workers employed by Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust will benefit after their campaign for fair compensation led to an improved […]
Friday 20 September 2024 For immediate release Hundreds of healthcare support staff at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Foundation Trust are to escalate their strike action next week in an ongoing pay dispute, UNISON announced today (Friday). They will be walking out over the trust’s failure to put staff on the NHS salary scale that best matches […]
Hundreds of healthcare support workers stage historic 48-hour strike, says UNISON Hundreds of healthcare support staff at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Foundation Trust will walk out for 48 hours today (Wednesday) in an escalating dispute over pay, says UNISON. It is the first time healthcare support staff in London have gone on strike independently of […]
Wednesday 21 August 2024 For immediate release Strike dates announced for healthcare support staff in Lewisham and Greenwich pay dispute, says UNISON Hundreds of healthcare support staff at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Foundation Trust will take strike action next month as part of an ongoing pay dispute, UNISON announced today (Wednesday). Workers from the University of […]
UNISON win for cleaning and ambulance preparation staff Cleaning and Make Ready* staff at London Ambulance Service (LAS) will be awarded approximately £1600 thanks to a UNISON campaign. The offer follows staff narrowly missing out on the government’s lump sum payment for staff employed directly by the NHS as of 31 March 2023. The 448 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]