{"id":29614,"date":"2021-07-29T17:01:19","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T16:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=29614"},"modified":"2021-07-30T11:55:29","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T10:55:29","slug":"have-your-say-on-nhs-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=29614","title":{"rendered":"‘Have your say on NHS pay’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Unite the union is strongly supporting its health service members who will be marching on Downing Street tomorrow (July 30) to vent their anger at the \u00e2\u20ac\u0098grossly inadequate\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 three per cent pay recommendation by the Pay Review Body (PRB) for NHS workers in England.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Members of the Unite Guy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s and St Thomas\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Hospital branch will be assembling at 5pm on Friday at St Thomas\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 with other health workers to march to Downing Street to protest that the PRB recommendation is an insult for an exhausted workforce who have battled Covid for the last 18 months and have seen, in many cases, a 19 per cent pay drop in real terms since the Tories took power in 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unite called on the incoming chief executive of NHS England Amanda Pritchard, who was a previous CEO of Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, to ensure that any NHS pay rise is fully funded by \u00e2\u20ac\u0098new\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 money from The Treasury, and not taken from existing already stretched NHS budgets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unite\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s national health committee, which represents 100,000 members in the health service, meets next week to decide the next steps in its pay campaign which will see a consultative ballot for industrial action being put to members, following widespread NHS pay discussions in Unite Health workplaces, branches, regions and occupational groups this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unite national officer for health Colenzo Jarrett-Thorpe said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe fully support our health members at Guy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s and St Thomas\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 in their protest tomorrow at the grossly inadequate and underwhelming three per cent pay recommendation \u00e2\u20ac\u201c we believe that the public shares our disgust at this paltry offer which reinforces our resolve for pay justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe government decision to accept the NHS PRB\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s recommendation was too little and too late after we have been asking for an early and significant pay rise for health workers for over a year,” he added. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe are asking the new chief executive of NHS England Amanda Pritchard to ensure that any NHS pay rise is fully funded by the chancellor Rishi Sunak and not taken from existing NHS budgets already stretched to breaking point by the continuing coronavirus crisis and faced with nearly five million patients in England waiting for non-Covid procedures and operations, such as cancer treatments,” Jarrett-Thorpe went on to say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe believe that Amanda Pritchard has a short \u00e2\u20ac\u0098honeymoon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 period in her job when she can exert maximum pressure on the Treasury for the additional funding that the NHS so desperately needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThree per cent will also do very little to staunch the escalating \u00e2\u20ac\u0098recruitment and retention\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 crisis,” he continued. “It is estimated there are 100,000 vacancies in the health service and very little in the way of a plan to recruit the numbers needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u015bHave your \u00e2\u20ac\u0098say\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 on NHS pay and join Unite the union today. If members do decide they want to take industrial action, the union is in a strong position to support members with a strike fund of over \u00c2\u014140 million.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unite\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s long-standing policy has been for a pay rise of \u00c2\u01413,000-a-year or 15 per cent, whichever is greater for all health sector workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Shaun Noble<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Unite the union is strongly supporting its health service members who will be marching on Downing Street tomorrow (July 30) to vent their anger at the \u00e2\u20ac\u0098grossly inadequate\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 three per cent pay recommendation by the Pay Review Body (PRB) for NHS workers in England. Members of the Unite Guy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s and St Thomas\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Hospital branch will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28036,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[29,63],"wps_subtitle":"NHS staff march on Downing Street to protest at \u00e2\u20ac\u0098grossly inadequate\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 three per cent pay recommendation","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29614"}],"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=29614"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29617,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29614\/revisions\/29617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}