{"id":1195,"date":"2014-09-09T11:04:28","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T10:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=1195"},"modified":"2014-09-09T11:04:28","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T10:04:28","slug":"crippling-oppression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=1195","title":{"rendered":"Crippling oppression"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>In a motion to tackle the culture of bullying that is rife within the NHS, ambulance worker and Unite member Debbie Wilkinson told congress of her experience of top-down oppression that is crippling the NHS.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe NHS is completely target driven, so it has become too easy to forget what it is really about \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the patients\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6you and I.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bAnd the bullying starts at the very top \u00e2\u20ac\u201c from the government in the savage and life threatening cuts to front line services,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 Debbie explained.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The pressure of these cuts mean that trust executives in turn bully their staff \u00e2\u20ac\u015bas they try to achieve the impossible.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Debbie went on to describe two instances where NHS bullying has been exposed; when Unite was derecognised as a trade union by the Yorkshire Ambulance Service after it challenged management on proposed cuts of \u00c2\u014146m; and in Northampton where 70 pathologists were \u00e2\u20ac\u0098locked out\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 of the hospital for saying they would take industrial action over their imposed terms and conditions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThese employers don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t feel NHS employees should have the right to strike or take action \u00e2\u20ac\u201c but do feel they have the right to impose unworkable conditions on our workers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bAnd this leads directly to the downgrading of patient care,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 Debbie said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe quality of our public services depends on the people who deliver them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bHaving an environment where NHS workers feel valued and respected is crucial.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The composite was unanimously carried.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a motion to tackle the culture of bullying that is rife within the NHS, ambulance worker and Unite member Debbie Wilkinson told congress of her experience of top-down oppression that is crippling the NHS. &nbsp; \u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe NHS is completely target driven, so it has become too easy to forget what it is really about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[85],"wps_subtitle":"NHS bullying exposed","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1195"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1198,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195\/revisions\/1198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}