East London NHS Foundation Trust
Piecemeal cuts adding up to 330 job cuts are being announced across the mental health trust. At the same time the long serving Unite branch secretary has been sacked.
The union has successfully raised individual dispute tactics to pause the cuts in some cases. The sacking of the full time officer is being appealed. The cuts mean that some staff will be repatriated.
Nationally the cuts are causing a very large number of job losses. It seems they are being pursued because they are needed to accommodate expensive contracts like Palantir and further fund outsourcing profits within the slowly growing NHS envelope budget.
Barts
Unite has raised a collective grievance on behalf of around 80 members over repeated boiler failures and unsafe working conditions at the Dental Hospital. Months later, there has still been no action. Staff have been left out of pocket, forced to take annual leave, unpaid leave and sick leave due to the Trust’s failure to provide a safe working environment. An adequate and consistent supply of uniforms and equipment is needed. Members have been asked to buy their own and make do, even though they are essential for staff safety, infection prevention and control, and maintaining a professional standard of care. No healthcare worker should ever be left out of pocket
Palantir
Weekly demonstrations have taken place throughout August picketing the Department of Health and Social Care every Tuesday and Wednesday lunchtime. Keep Our NHS Public are calling on the government to kick Palantir out of the NHS. Palantir’s deficiencies are exposed here:-
Institute of Cancer Research
UNITE members at the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) have been on strike for many weeks – the first strike in the ICR’s 117-year history, and the strike has now become indefinite.
They are fighting for fair pay and decent conditions for all staff, to protect their futures at the ICR and continue its vital cancer research.
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