NHS PAY BALLOT – VOTE YES

Because your pay matters to you, it matters to UNISON. You have told us you are angry about the insulting pay cuts and freezes being imposed on you. So now we believe it’s time to take action.

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Joint Statement – Annex E – 29 April

Joint Statement between NHS ambulance Trusts in England and UNISON, GMB and Unite Ambulance employers and trade unions have been in negotiations to resolve differences in the application of unsocial hours allowances during sickness absence. At a meeting on 4 April, Employers made a proposal that was considered by the trade unions.   At a joint […]

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Pay – A message from UNISON’s General Secretary

Dear UNISON healthcare member Since Jeremy Hunt’s announcement last month that he plans to ignore the NHS Pay Review  Body and give you no pay increase for the next two years unless you are at the top of your pay band,you’ve been telling the union what you think.  We know you feel that this is: Unfair to the […]

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New NHS pension scheme from April 2015

What’s happening? • The current NHS pension scheme will be replaced by a new scheme from 1 April 2015. • The new scheme is based on your earnings for your whole career from April 2015 (a Career-Average Revalued Earnings scheme). • Each year 1/54th of your pensionable salary for that year will be added to your pension account […]

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Survey on stress in the Ambulance Service

We are planning to do some work around the levels of  stress in the ambulance sector and are seeking more information on the scale and extent of the problem. To help us with this we are carrying out a survey which you can find here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/UNISONambulance2014 Please help us by completing and circulating this. Tweet […]

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Staff Survey

The National NHS staff survey has been published. This report presents the findings of the 2013 national NHS staff survey conducted in London Ambulance Service NHS Trust. Download the 2013 staff survey results – executive summary Download the National NHS staff survey – Brief summary

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Joint Statement – Annex E – 31 Jan

Joint Statement between NHS ambulance Trusts in England and UNISON, GMB and Unite Employers and trades unions met on 31 January 2014 and agreed to extend the pause for a further four weeks in order to allow further intensive work, in partnership, before the meeting of the NHS Staff Council on 28 February. 

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