Support staff at a leading music education institute in Leeds are set to walk out on Friday (27 March) in an ongoing dispute over pay and conditions. Workers at Leeds Conservatoire, including performance assistants and studio technicians, staged a two-day walkout last month unhappy at what they say are broken promises over pay and holidays. […]
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Low-paid NHS staff working in operating theatres across Leeds will be on strike next week in their ongoing pay dispute. Theatre assistants, who are on the lowest grade in the NHS, will walk out for five days on Monday (16 February). They want to be regraded and paid properly for the extra duties they say they’re […]
Studio technicians and performance assistants at a leading music education institute in Leeds will walk out tomorrow (Tuesday) for two days in a dispute over pay and conditions. A number of student support staff at Leeds Conservatoire are on different contracts to many of their colleagues, meaning they receive lower pay and fewer holidays. A […]
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). […]
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 […]
NHS staff working in theatres at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust are to be balloted for strikes in a dispute over back pay. The workers have been employed on band 2 of the NHS Agenda for Change pay scale, which covers ‘personal tasks’ such as feeding and bathing patients. The trust is in the process […]
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 […]
Support given to social workers in Leeds by their employer the city council must be improved, after recent disorder left an employee injured, says UNISON today (Monday). The incident in Harehills last month resulted in hundreds of people demonstrating angrily in the streets, with a police car overturned and a double decker bus set on […]
Proposals by Leeds City College to save money by cutting vital support for students would have a disastrous effect on those most in need of help, says UNISON today (Thursday). The college is looking to save around £160,000 in staffing costs, and is currently consulting on redundancies in its independent-learning department. The staff at risk […]
UNISON branches from across the Yorkshire and Humberside region took part in a number of ceremonies to mark International Workers Memorial Day on Sunday. The day is a time to remember those who have died either because of a workplace accident, ill health or diseases as a result of work. A number of events were […]
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