{"id":17948,"date":"2019-04-30T15:12:45","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T14:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=17948"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:56:49","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:56:49","slug":"southampton-hospital-strike-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=17948","title":{"rendered":"Southampton hospital strike off"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Security staff at Southampton General Hospital, who have been attacked in the A&amp;E department, have suspended a 48-hour strike due to start on Friday (May 3), while they vote on a new pay and sick pay offer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite said today (April 30) that the 21 security staff will be balloted on a new offer covering pay and sick pay conditions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This follows talks yesterday (April 29) with the employer Mitie Security Ltd. The ballot will close on Friday, May 17.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite lead officer for health in the south east Scott Kemp said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe had talks with Mitie yesterday and enough progress was made for us to be able to put a new offer on pay and sick pay to our members.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be revealing the details of the offer until our members have had the opportunity to consider and vote on the package.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bAs a result, we have suspended the 48 hour stoppage due to have started on Friday and our members will be working normally.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The plight of the 21 security staff, who have been attacked on a regular basis by members of the public either under the influence of drink or drugs, or with mental health problems, has attracted national media attention. There has been a lack of adequate personal protective equipment (PPE), such as stab vests and safety restraints.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The security staff have already taken two days of strike action at the University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust on Good Friday and\u00c2\u00a0April 5.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security staff at Southampton General Hospital, who have been attacked in the A&amp;E department, have suspended a 48-hour strike due to start on Friday (May 3), while they vote on a new pay and sick pay offer. &nbsp; Unite said today (April 30) that the 21 security staff will be balloted on a new offer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17949,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[558,132],"wps_subtitle":"Southampton hospital security staff suspend strike action to vote on a new offer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17948"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17948"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25313,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17948\/revisions\/25313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}