UNISON members say yes to NHS pay offer
UNISON members working in the NHS have voted to
accept a multi-year pay offer worth more than 8%An individual
postal ballot of 452,000 members working in the NHS saw 64.91%
of those taking part vote to accept the three-year offer worth
8.1% and more to some members. |
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UNISON to consult NHS members on 8%
offer
UNISON, the largest public sector union, will consult its
members working in the National Health Service over a proposed
pay deal worth 8% over the next three years. It includes a
re-opener clause that will allow the pay increases in years two
and three to be reviewed if inflation is higher than expected.
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Fighting for a fair deal for public service workers
Members in the NHS are being asked to vote on a proposed
multi-year agreement on pay. Ballot papers will be going out on
or after 15 May and must be returned by 3 June.
Click here to download a detailed leaflet on the pay offer
Click here to view a PowerPoint presentation |
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Unsocial Hours
Update
UNISON has won an agreement that ambulance
workers can stay on the current Unsocial Hour Payment agreement
and not be moved over to the new proposed system.
The current 25% maximum unsocial hour payment system was part
and parcel within the introduction of Agenda for Change in 2004.
It was, however, a temporary system until a new one could be
agreed between the Unions and the Department of Health at a
national level.
When a proposed new system was sent out to consultation it soon
became obvious that the majority of ambulance staff in all
services throughout the UK would lose out by up to 6%.
The evidence that was sent to the National Staff Council by the
LAS in partnership with the staff side also showed major loses
for the majority of our staff. After months of negotiations it
has now been agreed that all ambulance staff in all ambulance
trusts (England and Northern Ireland) will be withdrawn from the
proposed new system and be allowed to stay as we are. Those
staff within ambulance trusts that were not on the current
system will be moved over on to it by 2011.
Because the agreement to ‘de-couple’ ambulance trusts is part of
the new proposals (paragraph 5) that will be sent out to ballot,
it is important that ambulance staff vote YES on the ballot
paper. This will ensure the new proposals are accepted which
will contain the agreement to ‘de-couple’ ambulance trusts in
England and Northern Ireland from the proposals and keep us on
the current unsocial hour system.
This may seem confusing, but the simple thing to do is vote
YES.
The ballot details are:
Sent out – 25th January 2008
Return date – by 10.00 on 15th February 2008.
Eric Roberts
Branch Secretary
LAS UNISON
Unsocial Hours Presentation
NHS Staff Council USH Proposals |
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2007
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Agenda for
Change pay rates
The new
NHS Terms and Conditions of Service Handbook
Version 2, August 2007, Updated October 2007
(first published in January 2005) contains the Agenda for Change
pay rates that are effective from 1 October 2004, 1 April 2005,1
April 2006 & 1 April 2007. Staff assimilated to Agenda for
Change should be paid in accordance with these published pay
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Bank
Staff AfC Update
Following recent joint
negotiations, agreement has been reached on the application of
Agenda for Change arrangements for Service Bank staff, which
come into effect from 1 April 2007.
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Unsocial Hours Update
Draft proposals for the revised unsocial hours under Agenda for
Change have now been released. We are working with the service
to see exactly how this will affect us.
Click on the links to read the documents in full.
UNSOCIAL HOURS - AMBULANCE SECTOR BRIEFING
Joint
LAS & Staffside response to the NHS Staff Council.
Draft Proposals
Questions & Answers
Letter to NHS Staff Council |
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Pay Update
Following discussions
at meetings of the Staff Council Executive on 24 and 30 July
between the NHS trades unions, NHS Employers and the Department
of Health, the Secretary of State has confirmed that the
following offer can be made in respect of staff in England:
£400 for staff on pay points 1-7 with 1.5% payable from 1 April
2007 and the remainder from 1 November 2007.
2.5% + £38 for staff on pay points 8-18 with 1.5% from 1 April
2007 and the
remainder from 1 November 2007.
2.5% with 1.5% payable from 1 April 2007 and with the balance
from 1 November 2007 for all other staff.
Funding to the equivalent of £25 per member of staff who is not
required to have clinical professional registration to practice.
A payment of £38 a year to AfC clinical staff in bands 5-8(A)
inclusive who are in professions where registration is a
mandatory requirement of practice to support the payment of fees
for their clinical registration from 2007 to 2010 inclusive, by
when it will have been jointly reviewed.
UNISON’s Health Service Executive believes that this is the best
offer that can be achieved through negotiation. It therefore
follows that if members wish to reject the offer, they must also
be prepared to support industrial action in the event of a
subsequent industrial action ballot.
An individual
member postal ballot of all UNISON members will be held between
20th August and the 13th September 2007on whether to accept the
offer. |
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Click here to read the full report from the Review Body for
Nursing and Other Health Professions. |
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