Strike!

[Smokeandsteam]

The list of hospital trusts which will have nurses strikes is here. My local hospital isnt one of them.

Will nurses at your hospital go on strike? Check which trusts are affected

NHS trusts all over the UK will be affected - see below to find out if your local trust is involved.

news.sky.com

Anyone know why these ballots have been disaggregated (in the NHS and the civil servants)? Their pay isn't set trust by trust/hospital by hospital is it?

 

[belboid]

Anyone know why these ballots have been disaggregated (in the NHS and the civil servants)? Their pay isn't set trust by trust/hospital by hospital is it?

risk mitigation, i presume. Barely got past 50% overall in PCS so it was tight and at least DWP would have been out this way even if the overall vote was lost.

E2a: actually the DWP only scraped past 50% by an even closer margin than nationally. The Rural Payments Agency looks like the biggest bunch of commies

 

[Fedayn]

yup, 86% vote to strike on a 51.something% turnout. That's over the threshold in 126 employers, another six were a single vote short of reaching it! All the major groups apart from HMRC (750 votes shy of the threshold) so they're being reballoted early next year.

Yup, hopefully we get info soon, Union NEC meets tomorrow, see what happens.

 

[PR1Berske]

 

[elbows]

Anyone know why these ballots have been disaggregated (in the NHS and the civil servants)? Their pay isn't set trust by trust/hospital by hospital is it?

The sort of language used in reporting has been:

Action will take place in all NHS employers in Northern Ireland and Scotland and in all by one employer in Wales, after meeting relevant legal requirements.

Meanwhile, in England nurses have mandated strike action across 130 NHS employers. The RCN said this included “many of the biggest hospitals” in the country, but added that others narrowly missed the legal thresholds and will therefore not be able to take action.

NHS nurses vote to strike across majority of UK employers | Nursing Times

Nurses at the majority of NHS employers across the UK have voted to take strike action over pay, the Royal College of Nursing has confirmed. Industrial

www.nursingtimes.net

 

[hitmouse]

Here's the list of places that got over the line in PCS:

List of government departments where PCS members have reached the 50% threshold and voted for strike action

Read the list of government departments where PCS members have reached the 50% threshold and voted for strike action

www.pcs.org.uk

 

[Plumdaff]

The Welsh Health Board (Aneurin Bevan UHB ironically) that won't be striking was because they missed the minimum numbers by 9 votes despite a massive majority for strike action. Its because of anti union legislation basically.

 

[hitmouse]

I've heard RCN won't be reballoting the places that didn't get over the line, but PCS are looking at doing it. And as mentioned above, other health unions are still running their ballots at the moment.

 

[hitmouse]

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[Lord Camomile]

What's the theory in not reballoting in those instances? Is it simply a case of lack of resources?

That's what it was with UNISON, right? (Of course, ironically it was the ballot in Health that meant there apparently wasn't enough resources to reballot in HE )

 

[hitmouse]

I dunno much about the internal decision-making of RCN or PCS, but I'd guess so?

 

[The39thStep]

 

[PR1Berske]

 

[teqniq]

Arseholes:

 

[teqniq]

More dirty tricks (thread):

 

[Lord Camomile]

So have I understood correctly that it's essentially "oh look, we've been training these agency staff in preparation for the strikes, but might as well use them for these other shifts too and save ourselves some cash, because agency hours are cheaper than overtime hours"?

 

[hitmouse]

And this list isn't even complete cos it's definitely missing the IWGB action above.

 

[teqniq]

So have I understood correctly that it's essentially "oh look, we've been training these agency staff in preparation for the strikes, but might as well use them for these other shifts too and save ourselves some cash, because agency hours are cheaper than overtime hours"?

It's that pretty much and worse. If you read the thread it's a form of intimidation but also the agency workers are actually paid below the living wage.

 

[Lord Camomile]

Is there any kind of legislation to stop UCL from continuing to use the agency workers after the strike, too?

Am I right in thinking there's something around "you can only use agency workers for short term needs or in times of exceptional circumstance, but not 'business as usual'" thing? Although, given part of my own team's recent restructure involved staffing a large portion of our service with agency staff, I'm guessing... not

 

[hitmouse]

Hull Stagecoach workers in strike victory after Unite secures 20% rise

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www.unitetheunion.org

Tyne and Wear Metro strikes off after Unite secures improved offer

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www.unitetheunion.org

 

[hitmouse]

UNISON have won a proper pay rise at Uni of Glasgow:

Breakthrough pay deal agreed by University of Glasgow UNISON - UNISON Scotland

UNISON members at the University of Glasgow have voted to accept a breakthrough pay deal that will see overall pay

unison-scotland.org

 

[hitmouse]

Oh, and RMT got a pretty strong result in their reballot:

RMT renews national rail strike mandate for another 6 months

Rail union RMT today announced it had beaten the anti-trade union laws yet again with a stunning mandate for more strike action on the railways.

www.rmt.org.uk

 

[Louis MacNeice]

CWU live now:

Today RM 'offered' a voluntary redundancy package which would see posties with 30 years service getting 9 months salary redundancy payment...under previous agreements it would have been 2 years!

Cheers - Louis MacNeice

 

[Louis MacNeice]

New strike dates announced for December including 23rd and 24th; escalation, pressure, publicity and continued negotiation is the way forward.

Cheers - Louis MacNeice

p.s. in 42 years of working life I don't think I have ever felt prouder of what I do and those who do it alongside me.

 

[Bingoman]

New strike dates announced for December including 23rd and 24th; escalation, pressure, publicity and continued negotiation is the way forward.

Cheers - Louis MacNeice

p.s. in 42 years of working life I don't think I have ever felt prouder of what I do and those who do it alongside me.

I sorry to hear this but keep up the strikes

 

[hitmouse]

There should be at least some UNISON HE branches out alongside UCU and EIS next week, although there doesn't seem to be a proper full list I can see anywhere - here's the Scottish ones that'll be striking anyway:

Absolutely no idea why Glasgow Caledonian decided to go for different days than everyone else?

 

[Lord Camomile]

London branches:





Plus SOAS all three days, Southbank I think are doing one (24th, mebbe? ).

 

[Serge Forward]

City University is my old branch. I didn't recognise any faces in the pic... though to be fair, it was still NUPE when I was there

 

[hitmouse]

London branches:





Plus SOAS all three days, Southbank I think are doing one (24th, mebbe? ).

MMU will be out then as well:

Still seems weird that we seem to have to gather this info on a branch-by-branch basis, if only there was some kind of a national structure connecting these different branches?

 

[Serge Forward]

Yeah but this is Unison after all.