{"id":21617,"date":"2020-05-21T16:46:07","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T15:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=21617"},"modified":"2020-05-21T17:13:15","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T16:13:15","slug":"mean-spirited-and-shabby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=21617","title":{"rendered":"\u00e2\u20ac\u0098Mean-spirited and shabby\u00e2\u20ac\u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><strong><em>BREAKING NEWS:<\/em><\/strong> <strong>Thanks to Unite action the PM is now saying the overseas NHS and care workers will have the charge removed (at 16.41, May 21)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read original story below:\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Unite slammed Boris Johnson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hard-line stance not to waive the \u00c2\u0141400 NHS surcharge for overseas health and social care workers combating coronavirus today (Thursday May 21), describing it as \u00e2\u20ac\u0098mean-spirited and shabby\u00e2\u20ac\u2122.<\/p>\n<p>Unite said the hypocrisy of the prime minister was given extra piquancy as he singled out two non-UK\u00c2\u00a0 nurses \u00e2\u20ac\u201c one from New Zealand and the other from Portugal \u00e2\u20ac\u201c for praise after he survived his fight with Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>The NHS fee of \u00c2\u0141400-a-year for care workers applies to those from outside the European Economic Area, regardless whether they use the NHS or not. It is set to rise to \u00c2\u0141624 in October.<\/p>\n<p>There is also controversy over the \u00c2\u0141900m figure which the prime minister told MPs is raised by this charge. The Institute of Fiscal Studies put the sum at a tenth of that \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00c2\u014190m.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bOf all people, Boris Johnson should appreciate the wonderful and dedicated work of NHS health and social care professions, including the two non-UK nurses he singled out for particular praise in his fight for survival against coronavirus,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 commented Unite national officer for health Colenzo Jarrett-Thorpe.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe fact he won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t waive this \u00c2\u0141400 fee for overseas health and social care workers is mean-spirited and shabby\u00e2\u20ac\u0165.<\/p>\n<p>Unite NHS members are clearly unimpressed. \u00e2\u20ac\u015bWith this prime minister warm words of praise come cheap, but a small financial gesture for NHS migrant workers, many of them low-paid, is beyond his compass. His stance is hypocritical,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 said Jarrett-Thorpe.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bTonight, we will have the Thursday \u00e2\u20ac\u0098clap for carers by the people of the UK, many of them who voted for Boris Johnson as recently as last December \u00e2\u20ac\u201c there is a big irony here. This charge should be waived immediately.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p><em>Unite has 100,000 members in the health service.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>By Shaun Noble<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unite said the hypocrisy of the prime minister was given extra piquancy as he singled out two non-UK\u00c2\u00a0 nurses \u00e2\u20ac\u201c one from New Zealand and the other from Portugal \u00e2\u20ac\u201c for praise after he survived his fight with Covid-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21625,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1308,1],"tags":[1205,574,29,80],"wps_subtitle":"Unite slams PM for not waiving \u00c2\u0141400 surcharge for NHS migrant workers","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21617"}],"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=21617"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21644,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21617\/revisions\/21644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}