Unite turns down ‘joke’ pay offer for NHS workers
Unite union general secretary Sharon Graham (centre), joins the picket line outside ambulance headquarters in Coventry. Picture date: Wednesday December 21, 2022.
UNITE became the latest union to reject the Tory government’s much-criticised below-inflation NHS pay offer for England today.
Some 52 per cent of the union’s health service members voted against a one-off payment for 2022-23 and 5 per cent for this year on a 55 per cent turnout in a recent consultative ballot.
The world’s biggest nursing union, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), and the Society of Radiographers have also rejected the deal, but GMB joined Unison and unions representing midwives and physiotherapists in backing it.
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