NHS: Over the past three years, one in four ambulance workers have witnessed the death of a patient caused by delays, a GMB poll reveals.
Two in five spent an entire shift waiting outside A&E departments in the same period.
The survey of 3,000 members will be discussed at the union’s annual congress in Bournemouth today.
EQUALITY: Leeds City Council faces a major equal-pay claim as female staff face discrimination across every pay grade, GMB’s annual conference heard yesterday.
Leeds civic branch delegate Sally Ryan said: “Keep your eyes open in Leeds over the next months” as she backed a motion for the creation of an informal equal pay best practice campaign group.
“The brilliant women we have inspired and engaged with have so much to offer the next generation of equal pay activists,” she said. The motion passed.
SLOGANEERING: Labour must “recognise change is not a simple snappy election slogan,” GMB general secretary Andy Smith told the union’s conference yesterday.
He said: “People have had enough of the way this country is being run and they want — and demand — a better future.”
GMB will hold a Labour government to account to bring its New Deal for Workers to life, adding that it stands in stark contrast to what the Tories have done in power, he said.
