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Date: 28/11/2019 | Ref. 822845
28/11/2019
Memebrs of Sterile services at Musgrave Hospital in Belfast pictured at their picket line at the entrance of the hospital.
UNISON MEMBERS AT CRAIGAVON, MUSGRAVE PARK AND OMAGH HOSPITALS TAKE
STRIKE ACTION
Today (28th November) UNISON members at Craigavon, Musgrave Park and
Omagh Hospitals will commence strike action over unsafe staffing
levels and the lack of pay parity with NHS workers in Scotland,
England and Wales. Strike action will continue at Belfast City Hospital.
Commenting on the continuing industrial action, UNISON Regional
Secretary, Patricia McKeown said:
Today the sterile services workers, porters and drivers who form the
backbone of the health service will take strike action. Our members
industrial action is intensifying and will continue until pay justice
and safe staffing levels are delivered.
The Permanent Secretaries in the Departments of Health and Finance,
alongside the Head of the Civil Service, have released an
unprecedented joint statement in relation to this industrial action.
We call on them now to make the case directly to the Secretary of
State for Northern Ireland and the Treasury for the funding that is
required to achieve pay parity. That is the only way forward.
All UNISON members across the entire health and social services
system will today continue industrial action short of strike.
Categories of staff taking this action will include nursing,
ambulance service staff, support services staff, admin, clerical and
managerial staff, social services and social care staff, professional
and technical staff and all those staff working across the various
health services agencies.
Mandatory Credit Presseye/Stephen Hamilton
