Union hospital action fails to take place
A TRADE union plan to lobby a county health trust over its decision to join a pay consortium did not materialise yesterday.
Unison members were expected to gather outside the offices of Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Cheltenham to hand over a petition before its 9am board meeting.
A crowd did not appear and no petition was handed over.
Yesterday, Unison said this was due to the meeting being held at a time when most members were at work, prior commitments and leave.
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Reduced annual leave, increased hours and a cut in overtime and sick pay are all being considered by 20 trusts signed up to the South West Pay terms and Conditions Consortium.
Each trust has paid in £10,000 of public money to pay for consultants to look into plans to set up a regional pay structure.
This plan would take affected south west healthcare staff out of the nationally negotiated agenda for change terms and conditions.
Savings worth £70 million are needed in Gloucestershire over the next three years.
Trust chief executive Dr Frank Harsent has told the Echo savings had to be made to avoid redundancies.
Comments
by Legion
Monday, September 03 2012, 8:58AM
“Seems a poor state of affairs if non of the 20,000 people who signed were available to hand over the petition. I walk along college lawn on the way to work. I was expecting it to be quite a show but the only people I saw were reporters. If this issue is so important people need to put their money where their mouth is - if it's not then can we have something else to read about in the news?”