Tag: pay parity
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Hovis management must deliver pay parity for Northern Ireland workers to avert risk of widening bread shortages
Joint Unite-BFAWU picket lines ‘rock solid’ 24-7 as workers stand determined to win equal pay with British colleagues Hovis bread products increasingly absent from shelves across Northern Ireland stores as production stoppage enters fourth day Sean McKeever, Regional Officer for Unite called on management at Hovis to see sense and avoid extending the bread shortages already…
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Unite in health suspends action and will ballot members on Department of Health pay offer
Regional Industrial Sector Committee votes to suspend plans for escalated industrial action Union will recommend acceptance of offer which promises pay parity and further uplift in 2020 Unite Regional Officer for Health Kevin McAdam confirmed his union would be joining Unison and the RCN in suspending plans for strike action after the new Minister for…
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All parties should follow through on their election promises to include restoration of NHS pay parity in Northern Ireland talks process
A cross-party commitment to a payment necessary to avert planned strike action by local NHS workers this Wednesday Welcoming the commencement of fresh inter-party talks on the restoration of a functioning Northern Ireland Executive, Kevin McAdam Unite Lead officer for Health, called on all parties to commit to restoring pay parity as a key plank…
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Department of Health pay announcement is meaningless and delivers nothing to NI healthcare workers
Return to NHS pay parity across all UK nations needed to guarantee integrity and sustainability of NHS services in Northern Ireland Funding for Agenda for Change restructuring must be extended as well as UK-wide pay increase November 22nd: Unite Regional Officer for Health Kevin McAdam has stated that today’s press release from the Department is…
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Proposed radical reform of NI Ambulance Service is welcome but must be underpinned by level playing field on pay for paramedics
Political failure has led to situation where paramedics in Northern Ireland are paid eight thousand pounds less a year than those in England and Wales No guarantees that proposals to recruit additional 300 paramedics to meet 50% surge in demand will go anywhere in absence of locally-accountable Ministers September 27th: Unite Lead officer for Health…
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All out strike action by female administrative workers commences at Belfast Taxis
Female workers picket Black Taxis headquarters on King Street after continued management inaction on longstanding pay demands Questions over community interest company bosses’ attitude to women workers with no females on Board, in full-time management staff and only one female driver in a hundred and sixty March 4th: Speaking from the picket line at King…