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Category Archives: Public Services
Concerns for child safety in Northern Ireland with hundreds of education posts filled without safety checks
Minister must act to end widespread abuse of temporary engagement forms to avoid formal recruitment processes Unite has expressed deeps concerns for child safety in Northern Ireland after a freedom of information (FOI) response confirmed that 353 staff positions had … Continue reading
Health and social care workers in Northern Ireland in strike ballot
Unite to ballot members following failure of department of health to deliver pay parity and safe staffing Unite is to ballot over 4,500 workers in Northern Ireland’s health and social care system, for industrial action. This follows the failure of … Continue reading
Response failures highlights need to end NI ambulance staffing crisis
Paramedics are almost into third year of industrial action over unacceptable working conditions Unite has released responses to a freedom of information (FoI) request on staffing shortfalls and the resulting failure to meet targets for ambulance response times. The figures … Continue reading
Minister must end unsafe staffing at NI ambulance control centre, Unite
Three workers left to answer 999 calls from across the entire region, reporting up to 82 calls on hold Unite is warning the staffing crisis in Northern Ireland’s ambulance service is pushing workers beyond breaking point. Members working at the … Continue reading
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Tagged 999 calls, NIAS, Norman Cunningham, Sharon Graham, staffing crisis
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School support staff still on temporary engagement forms despite ministerial commitment to end practice
Union calls for use of temporary engagement forms in Northen Ireland to be restricted and all school staff working temporary for four years to automatically made permanent Unite has revealed statistics showing that 1,315 school transport and catering workers continue to be … Continue reading
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