NHS staff who work in operating theatres across Leeds will walk out for five days later this week in a continuing dispute over money they are owed. A meeting with hospital managers earlier today was unproductive, so workers are stepping up the strike with five days of walkouts, which will begin on Thursday (29 January). […]
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NHS staff who work in operating theatres in hospitals across Leeds are to strike for two days later this week in a dispute over money they are owed. Theatre assistants employed across four hospital sites run by Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust* will walk out at 8am on Thursday (18 December) for 48 hours. The […]

NHS staff working in hospitals across Leeds are set to strike in a dispute over missing wages. Theatre assistants employed across four hospital sites run by Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust* have backed the walkouts because they’re unhappy their employer has refused to pay them for work previously carried out when they were on the wrong grade. The workers […]

More than 1,500 hospital workers in East Yorkshire and North East Lincolnshire are celebrating after being promoted and given four years’ back pay as part of a deal to ensure they’re paid properly for the work they do. The healthcare assistants had been carrying out tasks – such as taking blood, performing electrocardiogram tests and […]

A group of band 2 theatres staff in Leeds met with the chief executive of Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust to call on him to pay them fairly for the work they do. Staff gather before marching through the hospital grounds to the meeting. Staff are currently employed on band 2 of the NHS Agenda […]

Healthcare assistants in the maternity and theatre departments of Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust are to be moved up a salary grade and receive five years’ back pay for clinical tasks already carried out, says UNISON today (Thursday). The staff are currently employed on band 2 of the NHS Agenda for Change pay scale. […]

Healthcare assistants at Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust have voted overwhelmingly to accept an offer of back pay to compensate for tasks carried out above their pay grade, says UNISON today (Tuesday). The healthcare assistants have been employed on band 2 of the NHS Agenda for Change salary scale, but have for years undertaken clinical duties, which […]


