Unite members at Guys and St Thomas’ Trust in South London, and the Yorkshire Ambulance Trust, will strike on Monday (1 May). Unite members at South Central, South East Coast and West Midlands ambulance trusts alongside workers at Christies NHS Foundation Trust, Christies Pathology Partnership, East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust and Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust will strike on Tuesday (2 May).
On Monday 1 May striking NHS workers will take part in a pay protest march from St Thomas’ Hospital to Trafalgar Square. Interviews are available from 1pm outside St Thomas’ on Westminster Bridge Road, SE1.
Isnt that just an ordinary pay rise? If its not up to snuff then it would be dum to assume that strikes wouldnt continueI don't think I've ever quite understood the full implications of a pay offer being imposed without agreement.
The NHS Council has voted to approve the paydeal
I have been talking to a colleague who's in the GMB. Says that this whole thing has really split colleagues and friends apart, it's got very ugly. Having the pay rise imposed this way won't help that.Yeah just came to post that. Looks like imposition of it by the government now.
I might be wrong, but it's being reported that unions representing a majority of workers have accepted, which means the deal will go ahead for all.Yeah just came to post that. Looks like imposition of it by the government now.
Among the demands, the workers want a pay rise to cope with the increased cost of living. In some cases they are asking for a modest increase to the London Living Wage (LLW) of £11.95 per hour, such as at Amazon, while some are demanding £13 and even £15 an hour. Others are asking for their lawful entitlement to annual leave pay and amended contracts which is being denied such as at the LSE; at Streatham and Clapham High School the cleaners are calling for full sick pay and an end to outsourcing; and in the Department for Education the workers are demanding parity with civil service benefits.
All of these strikes form part of 11 disputes, with nine workplaces balloted for strike action in May. Two of the 11 disputes were already won on the threat of the strike ballots alone with pay rises of 19.5% and 11% for cleaners at the Mercedes showroom in Dartford and at the Condé Nast offices in the Adelphi Building, respectively. Cleaners at a third workplace, the Mercedes showroom in Colindale, won a 25% pay increase after voting massively to strike.
Talks are at an advanced stage at La Retraite Catholic school with a settlement avoiding redundancies looking likely before the scheduled strike dates. UVW has been invited to negotiations for the Amazon cleaners and the West End Quays cleaners and concierge workers, with talks at both workplaces scheduled for the week starting Monday 5 June.
And that's with Lynch-mania, that week when everyone was googling how to join a union, and so on. No idea what's specifically affecting women working in the private sector, though.The proportion of UK employees who were trade union members fell to 22.3% in 2022 down from 23.1% in 2021. This is the second successive year where the proportion has declined, and these years represent the lowest two union membership rates on record among UK employees for which we have comparable data (since 1995).
The number of employees in the UK who were trade union members fell by 200,000 on the year to 6.25 million in 2022. This is the lowest membership level among UK employees since 2017. It is the second successive year where membership levels have fallen, following four years of growth.
The number of private sector female employees who were union members fell by around 129,000 on the year, accounting for two-thirds of the fall.
The fall in trade union numbers among employees was also driven by the decrease in private sector members, down 152,000 on the year to 2.4 million in 2022, the lowest level on record. There was also a fall in trade union membership numbers among public sector employees of 48,000 to 3.84 million in 2022.
Might some of this decline be age related? I gather that younger workers are less likely to be a TU member, while older workers who may also be union members are retiring.
Seems very strange that private sector membership has decreased among women much more than it has among men, but public sector membership has grown among women while falling among men.Across all employees, the majority of the fall was among female employees. This was due to the fall in female employee membership in the private sector, which declined by 129 thousand. Among public sector employees, female membership increased by 14 thousand.
Membership among males in the private sector decreased on the year by 22 thousand, with male employee membership in the public sector also falling, by 62 thousand.
Where are UNISON members planning to strike over pay next?
- University of Bristol – 1, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 June
- SOAS – 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 June
- University of Liverpool – 22, 23, 24 June
- Liverpool Hope University – 22, 23, 24 June
- University of Leeds – 15, 16, 17, 18 June, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 June
- Manchester Metropolitan University – 21, 26, 27 June, 5, 6, 7 July
- University of Winchester – 20, 21, 22, 23, 28, 29, 30 June, 26, 27, 28 July