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Strike threat looms over Liverpool Women’s Hospital - Liverpool Daily Post 29th October 2009
"STRIKE action could hit Liverpool Women’s Hospital, plunging wards into chaos.
Support staff including porters, cleaners, canteen workers and telephone operators have asked their union, Unison, to prepare for a ballot on industrial action if their next pay packet does not contain back pay owed by their employers Sodexo."
Postal strike threat to swine flu vaccines - Daily Telegraph 21st October 2009
"Thousands of people could miss appointments for their swine flu vaccine due to the postal strikes, Sir Liam Donaldson, chief medical officer has warned. "
Postal strike threatens to undermine swine flu vaccination programme - Daily Telegraph 21st October 2009
"The postal strike threatens to undermine efforts to vaccinate 11 million people against swine flu, Sir Liam Donaldson, the Government's chief medical officer, has said. "
Dentists in new rebellion over NHS contracts - Daily Mail 30th September 2009
"The move could see thousands more patients being denied an NHS dentist - a decade after Tony Blair promised everyone would have access to free care.
The British Dental Association, the dentists' trade union, is opposed to a new draft contract because it says it will lead to delays in payments for their NHS work and even more red tape. "
Dentists may stop NHS work in patient contract row - The Observer 27th September 2009
Dentists may stop treating NHS patients in protest at the government's attempt to impose a new contract on them which they claim burdens them with too much red tape.
Daggers drawn over stilettos - The Independent 16th September 2009
Few women can resist the allure of a pair of high heels – and few men can ignore the results. By throwing the pelvis forward, the bottom backward, tightening the calf muscles and making the legs look longer and sleeker, heels accentuate a woman's natural curves – and that's before she even starts walking.
Unions rally to defend workers against the common foe: killer heels - The Times 16th September 2009
Since 1868 the trade unions of Britain have met in congress and fought for Britain’s downtrodden workers. They have made great strides, but battles remain. After the fight for equal pay comes the struggle for equal shoes.
Women should not be forced to wear 'inappropriate' heels to work due to health and safety, unions say - Daily Mail 15th September 2009
Union leaders kicked up a fuss over high heels today by demanding that women should be allowed to wear 'sensible' shoes to work.
Delegates at the TUC Congress in Liverpool called on employers to carry out a risk assessment because of the health and safety hazards of high-heeled shoes.
Unions take 'stand' on stilettos - BBC Health News 15th September 2009
Union members have voted to take a stand against the risks of wearing high heels in the workplace in favour of more "sensible shoes".\n\nDelegates at the TUC congress in Liverpool backed a motion requiring some employers to carry out risk assessments about workers' footwear.
Gordon Brown to TUC: spending cuts are inevitable - The Guardian 15th September 2009
Labour drops pledge on extending maternity leave in sign of tight constraints on government finances
Junior doctors seek a breakaway union over bosses' NHS pay boom - Daily Mail 19th August 2009
Junior doctors are in revolt over claims their bosses are creaming off vast amounts of NHS cash.
They are angry at a contract negotiated in 2003 which led to enormous pay rises for family GPs who own practices, but little for the junior doctors they employ.
Staff at Warrington Hospital angered by massive pay rises for bosses - Warrington Guardian 29th June 2009
ANGRY staff members ranging from nurses to governors have hit out at the huge payrises awarded to the hospital’s executive board in April.
One nurse said she has been told to cover extra shifts because the hospital is in debt and has not been given a payrise this year.
“Maybe Catherine should do few shifts on the ward and see what we have to put up with. She wouldn’t last the morning.”
Union criticises care home contract - Warrington Guardian 25th March 2009
HEALTH union Unison has criticised NHS Warrington for awarding a care contract to a company that does not yet have a building to house patients in.
The provider of care at the Oakdene Unit in Culcheth is being switched from 5 Boroughs Partnership NHS Trust to a private body on July 1.
Row over idea for private ambulances in Cumbria - Carlisle News & Star 23rd March 2009
TRADE unions are balloting ambulance staff in a row over plans that could see private crews responding to 999 calls and “retained” services operating in rural Cumbria.
Row over idea for private ambulances - Carlisle News & Star 21st March 2009
TRADE unions are balloting ambulance staff in a row over plans that could see private crews responding to 999 calls and “retained” services operating in rural Cumbria.
Unions fear part-time ambulance cover for remote Cumbrian areas - Carlisle News & Star 19th March 2009
Trade unions are balloting ambulance staff in a row over plans that could see private crews responding to 999 calls and “retained” services operating in rural Cumbria.
They fear it is the thin end of the wedge to privatising services and leaving remote areas with only part-time cover.
Union vows to oppose mental health cutbacks - Carlisle News & Star 18th March 2009
THE main union representing mental health workers in Barrow and Ulverston has vowed to oppose any compulsory redundancies in the forthcoming staff and service shake-up.
Health care assistants fear 10pc pay cuts - The Bolton News 3rd February 2009
UNION chiefs are locked in top level talks with hospital bosses over a controversial review of wages.
Proposals to restructure the way in which health care assistants are paid at the Royal Bolton Hospital are being considered.
The plans have sparked outrage among the 150-plus staff affected, because they could lead to some losing up to 10 per cent of their wages.
Nurses’ long hours tribunal - Carlisle News & Star 28th January 2009
BOSSES at the West Cumberland Hospital in Whitehaven have denied claims that the long hours nurses work are putting patients’ lives at risk.
Nurses say they routinely work 18-and-a-half hours at a time, leaving them exhausted and more likely to make mistakes
Five of them took their employers, North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust, to an employment tribunal this week to demand better working conditions.
Sacked nurse to speak at union meeting - The Bolton News 29th January 2009
A NURSE who was controversially sacked after criticising management of mental health services is to speak to the Bolton workers who supported her.
Karen Reissmann, who finally reached an agreement with her former employers on Wednesday, will address the annual meeting of the Bolton branch of Unison in March.
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