UNISON HEALTH MEMBERS TO TAKE 48 HOUR STRIKE ACTION ON 21st and 22nd SEPTEMBER 2023
UNISON members in the Health service in Northern Ireland will be taking to the picket lines next week.
On Thursday 21st and Friday 22nd of September during a period of 48 hours ambulance crews, nurses, health care assistants, pharmacists, radiographers, porters, admin and technical staff, cleaners and catering will be on strike. Payroll staff will strike for a shorter period to ensure their co-workers receive their pay on time - a decision highly commended by their union colleagues.
UNISON members in the health service are fed up with the current impasse in their just pursuit of pay parity. They have decided not to remain silent as politicians dither and delay a resolution of their political differences. They have resolved to continue demanding that the Secretary of State use his powers of economic governance to include funding for the restoration of pay parity.
NHS workers in England and Wales had their pay uplift since from April this year.
Why should health staff in Northern Ireland have to wait? No amount of finger pointing at local politicians justifies this appalling situation.
UNISON members have no intention of staying silent or just putting up with it.