NHS workers fell ‘betrayed’ by SNP health secretary, unions warn
Unison members outside Glasgow Royal Infirmary, March 5, 2025
[Stella Rooney] 
NHS Scotland workers “feel misled and betrayed” by SNP Health Secretary Neil Gray amid stalled pay talks and “broken promises” on a shorter working week, unions have warned.
Mr Gray had agreed to cut the full-time working week in the service from 37.5 hours to 36, promising to cut it by 30 minutes a year for three years.
More from this author
It’s hard to understand how minor divisions can come to dominate the process of building a challenge to the rule of the rich when the desperate need for a vehicle to fight poverty and despair is so abundantly clear, writes MATT KERR
