Union warns strike is likely to impact bread supplies on shelves across Northern Ireland. Unite has notified the employer that . The Unite union, which represents healthcare staff in Northern Ireland, has moved a planned strike to coincide with industrial action by teachers. Union officials added that 80% of management grade staff and 60% of general grade members voted to accept the offers. This may be the first action of many but with no ministers in place it's hard to see who is listening. The PM and ministers have been missing in actionbut it istheirjob to ensure that NHS bosses make a realistic offer to the workers who keep our health and social care services running. A senior minister and former hardline rebel on Brexit fought back tears last night as he backed Rishi Sunak's Northern Ireland deal - and revealed the toll the past seven years have taken on his . PDA Union has agreed how to proceed towards NHS Strike Action; What to do when faced with an industrial action picket line; PDA update on industrial action: why, how, and when strikes are called; Not yet a PDA member? Northern Ireland Health and Social Care workers strike for improved pay. People are on corridors, and everyone's being overstretched and overworked," he told Good Morning Ulster from the picket line at the Royal Victoria Hospital. The government has already awarded a 1,400 pay increase for health workers for 2022/23, but unions have roundly criticised this for being far below the rate of inflation. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. 27 Feb 2023 10:54:04 Unites members will be joining striking health workers from other health trade unions in marches to Belfast City Hall and other rallies across Northern Ireland in a show of solidarity for striking education workers. Read about our approach to external linking. She said Secretary of State Chris Heaton-Harris should be in Northern Ireland "talking about the crisis in our health service". Change), You are commenting using your Twitter account. "This might be a short term pain but we need to make sure these services are protected for the public. The strike is a result of the failure to deliver a cost of living pay increase. The University and College Union (UCU) has said that strike action has been "paused". In the absence of a new pay offer, a further day of strike action has now been planned on March 16. 2023 BBC. Change). Standing alongside European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen at a news conference in Windsor, Sunak said the two sides . Teachers in Northern Ireland are at "breaking point", a leading trade union official has said. Unite the union has confirmed that it has given the Northern Ireland Housing Executive seven day notice of a strike action over pay. "We want safe staffing levels because one nurse can not do the job of three people, it is totally unsafe," she said. Our members will be joining members of other health trade unions on the picket lines tomorrow, and Unite has already notified employers that we will also be taking action on 16, 17, 23 and 24 February. Unite represents 4,000 workers across the health and social care trusts and the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service (NIAS). The Cargotec workers have Unites full and unstinting support in this battle to defend their jobs., Union warns of `existential crisis for health service as NI wages fall further behind. With chronic low pay making it impossible torecruit and retainessentialhealth workers, the health service in Northern Ireland is facing an existential crisis. Action by Unite members continues in Northern Ireland. 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The group posted pre-tax profits of almost 50 million in 2021 and is a well-funded business with a strong balance sheet. 4000 members of Unite the union will join strike action tomorrow (Tuesday) at health and social care workplaces, across Northern Ireland. More than two hundreds Unite members employed by the Roads Service of Northern Ireland will be joining with colleagues in the GMB in taking strike action for a week commencing Monday 27th February. Four teaching unions took part in a half-day strike over pay - their first walkout in six . "They're stripping it down piece by piece," Orlaigh explained. In a statement it said the department remained "extremely concerned at the scale of the current pressures on health and social care services - and the impact this is having on patients, service users, carers and staff". Unites Northern Ireland officer, Kevin McAdam, told the BBC: "We felt it was really important to move the dates to the (February 21) to coincide with teachers to demonstrate that there are two important things in life, one is health and the other is education.". The four teaching unions involved were the National Association of Schoolmasters and Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT); the Irish National Teachers' Organisation (INTO); the Ulster Teachers Union (UTU) and the National Education Union (NEU). Ambulance staff includes paramedics, call handlers and support workers. The industrial action follows a ballot of Unite members which returned a 95.30 percent vote for strike. In Northern Ireland many teachers were offered 3.2% for 2021/22 and 2022/23. Nipsa spokesperson Patrick Mulholland told BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme staff can no longer continue working under current conditions. "Our aim is to disrupt the administration of the service, not to disrupt the patients but obviously it will impact to some extent," Mr McAdam said. VideoAt the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece, Havana Syndrome unlikely to have hostile cause - US, How 10% of Nigerian registered voters delivered victory, Sake brewers toast big rise in global sales, The Indian-American CEO who wants to be US president, Blackpink lead top stars back on the road in Asia, Exploring the rigging claims in Nigeria's elections, 'Wales is in England' gaffe sparks TikToker's trip. Unite's Northern Ireland Officer Gareth Scott said employers were to blame for the resumption of strike action. It is understood union representatives are to meet the Department of Education later this week for further talks. The first strike will occur for the four day production period on Monday 11 April and be followed up the week after Easter with a further four day stoppage on 25 April. Northern Ireland representative Kevin McAdam said 87% of Unite's members had rejected. The NASUWT has been calling for a 12% increase in salaries, following deadlock over a pay deal for the past year. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Workers of Unite the union have voted by a margin of more than 95 percent for strike action in pursuit of a cost of living pay increase at Hovis, the leading Belfast Bakery. Some staff at Queen's University Belfast (QUB) and Ulster University (UU) will also strike on 21 February in a dispute over pay. Strike action by the union was scheduled to take place on Thursday and Friday, as well as 23 and 24 February. Road users have been urged to be extra careful and prepare for potential delays in the event of unforeseen incidents ahead of planned industrial action by members of the GMB and Unite unions. Posted on February 20, 2023 by Unite the union NI Union warns of `existential crisis' for health service as NI wages fall further behind 4000 members of Unite the union will join strike action tomorrow (Tuesday) at health and social care workplaces, across Northern Ireland. Change), You are commenting using your Twitter account. In Scotland, teachers rejected a 5% increase and a subsequent offer of up to 6.85%. He said that ambulance staff will be among those taking part in the strike. Sign Up here . Harry and Meghan told to 'vacate' Frogmore Cottage, Explosive found in check-in luggage at US airport, Fungus case forces Jack Daniels to halt construction, China and Belarus call for peace in Ukraine, Rare Jurassic-era bug found at Arkansas Walmart, West Africans to leave Tunisia after race row, Dozens of girls treated after new Iran poisonings, Fire knocks out half of Argentina's power grid. Their action on 15 March, which is budget day, is likely to coincide with a strike by PCS union members in the civil service and other public sector workers, taking the number of civil servants . BEST. Workers, including ambulance service workers, are fighting for a fair pay rise and urgent action to avert an `existential crisisin the service. are to join nurses in taking strike action on 6 February in what will be the biggest NHS walkout in this dispute. Unite regional officer Sean McKeever said emergency talks were planned for Wednesday morning in an attempt to resolve the dispute. Staff, who have just brought us through a global pandemic, are feeling weary, disheartened even exasperated. More than 20,000 healthcare staff in Northern Ireland have begun a one-day strike as part of a pay dispute. However, Unite members have well-founded concerns that the company is engaging in a fake TUPE process. Cargotec is a successful multinational, generating over 4 billion in revenue during 2022. In Northern Ireland teachers were offered a 3.2% rise spread over two years from 2021 to 2023. Roads Service maintenance workers in Unite commence one week strikeaction. The Department of Health said the strikes would undoubtedly impacts patient care. But the statement said negotiations were taking place at a time of growing and unprecedented financial pressures within the education sector. "This a national dispute which is only resolvable at national level. Paramedics on strike will still be on standby to respond to the most serious calls. VideoAt the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece, How fake copyright complaints are muzzling journalists, How 10% of Nigerian registered voters delivered victory, Sake brewers toast big rise in global sales, The Indian-American CEO who wants to be US president, Blackpink lead top stars back on the road in Asia, Exploring the rigging claims in Nigeria's elections, 'Wales is in England' gaffe sparks TikToker's trip. The Department of Education said guidance had been issued to help principals assess and prepare for strike action. So there's negotiations going on at the minute but I don't see anything happening but a strike. For media enquiries ONLY please contact Unite senior communications officer Barckley Sumner on 07802 329235 or 0203 371 2067. (LogOut/ Workers were told they would get a 2022-23 pay award of 1,400, but unions said this would not settle the dispute as it was lower than inflation. In England and Wales, ambulance workers are to join nurses in taking strike action on 6 February in what will be the biggest NHS walkout in this dispute. For health and public service unions Unite, Unison, Nipsa and GMB it was further action in a pay dispute. 12 weeks for 12. 4000 members of Unite the union will join strike action tomorrow (Tuesday) at health and social care workplaces, across Northern Ireland. The ballot follows a survey carried out by the PDA in December 2022, to which 80% of its members in Northern Ireland responded; 94% of whom called [] It said that in some front-line social work teams 42% of posts are unfilled, leaving staff with "unsustainable caseloads". "I have a warning for the government, we're not finished, we're not going anywhere, we have just started," she added. Deirdre Murphy, a staff nurse at Daisy Hill hospital in Newry, County Down, said the health service is "not on its knees, it's flat on the ground". 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