{"id":21651,"date":"2020-05-22T11:31:39","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T10:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=21651"},"modified":"2020-05-22T14:37:28","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T13:37:28","slug":"victory-for-fair-minded-british-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=21651","title":{"rendered":"\u00e2\u20ac\u0098Victory for fair-minded British people\u00e2\u20ac\u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Yesterday (May 21) Unite severely rebuked PM 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 describing it as \u00e2\u20ac\u0098mean-spirited and shabby\u00e2\u20ac\u2122.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Unite said 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>\u00c2\u00a0<\/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>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But late yesterday afternoon, thanks to Unite, action the PM made an astonishing U-turn \u00e2\u20ac\u201csaying the charge for overseas NHS and care workers will be removed.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The move was welcomed by Unite. \u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe welcome the PM\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s U-turn on charging NHS migrant workers \u00c2\u0141400 a year to use health services,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 commented Unite national officer for health.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIt should have never been policy for these valued workers in the first place,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 she continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bBoris Johnson recognised that he was swimming against the tide of public opinion, including his own Tory MPs,\u00c2\u00a0who were horrified that those from overseas fighting coronavirus in our hospitals and care homes, many low paid, should be burdened with this outrageous surcharge.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Williams described as a \u00e2\u20ac\u015bvictory for the fair mindedness of the British public who could not stomach such an unjust policy.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Unite will be monitoring the government\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s actions in the coming days to see that there is no backsliding, following the prime minister\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s announcement.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThere are thousands of low-paid key workers in the UK originally from overseas.\u00c2\u00a0They are paying their taxes and paying into our NHS.\u00c2\u00a0 They, too, should have this immoral surcharge removed,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 she concluded. \u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Compiled by Amanda Campbell @amanda_unite\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But late yesterday afternoon, thanks to Unite, action the PM made an astonishing U-turn \u00e2\u20ac\u201csaying the charge for overseas NHS and care workers will be removed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19654,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1308,1],"tags":[1205,1295,29,80],"wps_subtitle":"PM U-turn on overseas NHS and care workers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 surcharge","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21651"}],"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=21651"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21655,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21651\/revisions\/21655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}