Tag: pay parity
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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 the department of health to deliver on pay parity and safe staffing. The union has…
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Pay for Northern Ireland health workers must keep pace with rest of NHS
Proposed increase doesn’t resolve long-term problems faced by HSC workers with staff shortages and cuts creating a toxic environment Unite has warned that the government’s pay proposal for NHS staff still fails to address the long-term issues of low pay and staff cuts which is threatening the future of the service. The Pay Review Body…
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Unite members working in Health and Social Care vote overwhelmingly to accept pay parity offer and end industrial dispute
Union celebrates historic win for workers and pledges to continue efforts to secure legal protections for safe staffing Members of Unite the union working for the health and social care service in Northern Ireland have voted decisively, with an 81 percent majority, to accept a pay improvement offer made by their employer. The positive ballot…
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Unite NI health reps recommend acceptance of pay offer ensuring parity with NHS workers in England & Wales
Unite the union’s workforce representatives have voted to recommend acceptance of a pay offer made by the department of health in negotiations. These resulted from industrial action taken by health workers in Northern Ireland who sought to maintain pay parity with NHS workers in England and Wales. Unite members will now be balloted on the…
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Moy Park feed mill workers at Randalstown site vote overwhelmingly for strike action over pay and threat to holiday premiums
Unite members at the Moy Park mill in Randalstown have voted by 78 per cent to take strike action in a dispute over pay parity across the business’s Northern Ireland sites. Unite members working as drivers, mill operators and engineers at the Moneynick Road feed mill have rejected Moy Park management’s attempts to tie a…
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Hovis talks end without success after management fails to deliver pay parity for Northern Ireland workforce
Picket lines to remain in force at Hovis’ Apollo Road site as bread shortages mount across retail outlets in Northern Ireland Unions invite Hovis management continue engagement through Labour Relations Agency with aim of resolving pay dispute Sean McKeever, Regional Officer for Unite confirmed that today’s talks with management which were aimed at ending the…