NHS workers to stage fresh strikes in pay dispute

Health workers are to stage fresh strikes in a long-running dispute over pay. Unite said around 700 of its members at Barts NHS Trust and contractor Synergy will walk out from May 7-19.

The union said the workers including cleaners, porters and facilities staff are taking action over the failure of their employer to pay a lump sum worth more than £1,600 that other NHS workers were offered for working during the pandemic.

Unite said its members worked for another outsourcing company before transferring back into the NHS just after the imposed deadline for staff to receive the payment.

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Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said: "If Barts thinks that our members have given up on this fight they have another thing coming."

"They have seen their comrades at other trusts rightly win this pay award and there is absolutely no reason for NHS bosses to be continuing to block this payment for our members."

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