Forty phlebotomists at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have been striking for over 60 days to demand ...

“Many of these nurses work at band 5, despite the years of experience and their safety critical roles,” she said. “Nurses are the biggest staff group in the NHS, it’s vital that they feel valuable.” ...

we help people move to band 6. “The hard way is that we have to organise, we have to start challenging employers and then ultimately, sometimes, take people out on strike.” He noted that this aligned ...

Both the RCN and Unison had recommended that members accept ... lump sum payment of between £1,655 and £3,789 depending on pay band and a 5 per cent pay rise for the next financial year.

Members of Unison have voted "decisively" to accept ... midwives and others in the band 5 pay bracket. The wage rise for next year is worth at least £1,065 and would raise the lowest hourly ...

UNISON is the union who are negotiating the phlebotomists pay with the trust ... description matches the national profile, which is a Band 2. Other local health services also follow the same ...

NHS staff in Gloucestershire have announced another two weeks of strike action. UNISON claims the NHS is refusing to re-evaluate the roles which phlebotomists perform and should be paid at a higher ...

Unison's Ian Fleming said that healthcare assistants on a salary band 2 should only be providing personal care to patients, such as bathing and feeding. But many have been performing clinical ...

In 2018, Unison and other unions agreed to a rotten pay deal that not only slashed sickness enhancement pay for Bands 1–3, but also helped dismantle the NHS’s incremental pay progression.