UNIONISED pharmacists have warned managers that they “aren’t going anywhere” after teaching other trade unionists on how to “do the impossible” and beat sweetheart unions.
Speaking at the Unions21 annual conference in London, Pharmacists’ Defence Association (PDA) director Paul Day discussed the fight of his organisation, which was established in 2008 and represents 28,000 workers, in unionising workers at Boots.
He told delegates that anger could be easily detected in Boots, where “health professionals work in an environment where, last week, their manager could have been the manager of a Carphone Warehouse, and cares about nothing other than how [many] goods they’re selling.”
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