The government must ditch the discredited pay review body and hold direct talks with unions covering the next annual wage rise and deep-seated problems with the outdated salary structure, says UNISON today (Friday). The union says the best way to ensure an efficient wage rise is delivered on time when it’s due in April next […]
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NHS staff in England are far from happy with this year’s pay rise and many are prepared to take strike action to challenge it, says UNISON. Seven in ten (70%) of UNISON members who responded to the union’s consultation on the 2025/26 NHS pay award said they’d back walkouts if the union were to ballot […]
Commenting on the announcement today (Thursday) that NHS staff in England are to receive a 3.6% pay rise this year, UNISON head of health Helga Pile said: “The pay rise is more than ministers said they could afford, but it barely matches inflation. The money will also be landing in pay packets four months late. “Health workers had high […]
Commenting on health unions’ acceptance of an above-inflation two-year pay offer from the Scottish government for NHS workers, UNISON head of health Helga Pile said: “Health workers in Scotland are reaping the rewards of a better pay process. Proper, direct pay talks have delivered an above-inflation, two-year deal, which comes with an inflation-proof guarantee. “All being […]
The government mustn’t sit on the report it’s received from the NHS pay review body but should put health workers out of their misery and confirm this year’s wage rise, says UNISON today (Tuesday). The report containing the pay review body’s recommendations for the 2025/26 increase was handed to ministers at the end of last week, says the union. […]
The government’s decision to stick with the ‘painfully slow’ NHS pay review body process means yet another lengthy delay before health workers in England* get the annual wage rise they should be due today (Tuesday), says UNISON. NHS staff are meant to receive their pay increase on 1 April every year, but this hasn’t been delivered on time in a […]
Commenting on the announcement today (Friday) of a salary increase for the lowest-paid NHS workers in England to prevent them from falling below the national minimum wage when it rises in April*, UNISON head of health Helga Pile said: “If the government did the right thing and delivered a decent pay rise on time, there’d be no need […]
NHS staff are to ask English MPs to help kickstart promised, but recently postponed, pay talks to boost the morale of health workers battling at the heart of the winter health crisis, says UNISON today (Tuesday). Healthcare workers are being encouraged to write to their local MPs asking them to call on health and social […]
The government’s plans to limit wage rises across the NHS to 2.8% next year will go down badly with staff already facing a hellish winter, says UNISON. The decision to delay talks on the promised modernisation of NHS pay scales until the second half of next year isn’t helpful, says UNISON. Similarly, insisting the cost […]
Commenting on the announcement by the chancellor that the government is to accept the pay review body recommendation of a 5.5% wage rise for all NHS staff on Agenda for Change contracts in England for 2024/25, UNISON general secretary Christina McAnea said: “This is a government thankfully prepared to act quite differently from its predecessors. […]
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