• About
    • Ethics policy
    • Privacy Policy
    • Ownership, funding and corrections
    • Complaints procedure
    • Terms & Conditions
  • Contact
  • Support
  • Newsletter
Brighton and Hove News
16 May, 2025
  • News
    • Politics
    • Business
    • Opinion
    • Community
  • Arts and Culture
    • Music
    • Theatre
    • Food and Drink
  • Sport
    • Brighton and Hove Albion
    • Cricket
  • Newsletter
  • Public notices
  • Advertise
No Result
View All Result
  • News
    • Politics
    • Business
    • Opinion
    • Community
  • Arts and Culture
    • Music
    • Theatre
    • Food and Drink
  • Sport
    • Brighton and Hove Albion
    • Cricket
  • Newsletter
  • Public notices
  • Advertise
No Result
View All Result
Brighton and Hove News
No Result
View All Result
Home Brighton

NHS campaign group joins union’s protest against 3 per cent pay offer

by Roz Scott
Tuesday 24 Aug, 2021 at 8:31PM
A A
0
NHS campaign group joins union’s protest against 3 per cent pay offer

Tomorrow campaigners from Sussex Defend the NHS plan to be out on the streets to support NHS workers in their campaign for a decent pay rise.

They will be outside the Royal Sussex County Hospital, in Brighton, from noon until 2pm tomorrow (Wednesday 25 August) supporting the Unite union’s day of action.

Clare Jones, a local NHS nurse and Unite staff rep, said: “A below-inflation pay offer is an insult for NHS workers and I fully support my union’s recommendation to reject it.

“I am pleased that the unions are working together and saying ‘not good enough’ to the government.”

The Unite protest follows an NHS protest about pay last week organised by the GMB union.

The government has offered a 3 per cent pay rise which all of the major health unions say is totally inadequate.

The GMB calculated that, when the inflation rate was taken into account, it amounted to a pay rise of less than 0.6 per cent.

For the lowest-paid workers in the NHS, it will mean less than the Real Living Wage (£9.50 an hour) and it’s less than the rise in the cost of housing, food and travel to work.

There are also concerns that it will widen the pay gap within the workforce and make it more difficult for the NHS to recruit and retain staff.

Louise, a local mental health nurse and Unison member, said: “I am voting to reject the offer and I’m prepared to strike. I’m encouraging my colleagues to do the same.”

Kelly, a registered nurse from Brighton and GMB activist, supports her union’s campaign for a 15 per cent pay rise.

She said: “We have faced a decade of austerity so another real-terms pay cut is just rubbing salt into the wound for staff.

“This year it’s actually less than a 1 per cent pay rise in real terms after 4 per cent predicted inflation, and we’ve already seen a 20 per cent pay cut since 2010.

“Also, the NHS is chronically understaffed and this 3 per cent offer isn’t enough to persuade overworked current staff to stay, let alone recruit the new workers we desperately need.”

Sussex Defend the NHS sees this offer as part of the government’s efforts to undermine and privatise the NHS.

It believes that the government has used the pandemic as an excuse to speed up the process, wasting huge amounts of public money keeping private hospitals afloat and funding an unworkable track and trace system.

Instead, it wants the government to fully fund the NHS, including a 15 per cent pay rise for its staff.

Roz Scott is a freelance journalist based in Hove. To read more of her work or subscribe to her blog, visit www.rozscott.com.

ShareTweetShareSendSendShare

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Most read

Parent speaks out about plan to close school site

Two charged after drugs seized in Hove

Proposed closure of primary school to be decided next week

FoI request reveals financial offer by new owner of i360

NHS campaign group joins union’s protest against 3 per cent pay offer

Constance Marten brings cross-examination to an end

Man with shotgun arrested by armed police in Brighton today

Police hunt man who threatened Greggs staff and damaged shop

Jury acquits man charged with rape in Brighton

Madeira Terrace work on schedule for 2026 completion

Newsletter

Arts and Culture

  • All
  • Music
  • Theatre
  • Food and Drink
How To Survive and Thrive in an Impossible World – with a piano!

How To Survive and Thrive in an Impossible World – with a piano!

16 May 2025
Moving On…Really, Really Slowly

Moving On…Really, Really Slowly

16 May 2025
The Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show

The Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show

16 May 2025
Cinderella and Frankenstein’s Monster Are Dead

Cinderella and Frankenstein’s Monster Are Dead

16 May 2025
Load More

Sport

  • All
  • Brighton and Hove Albion
  • Cricket
Sussex struggle to make it to day three against Nottinghamshire

Robinson helps Sussex to victory over Worcestershire at Hove

by Bruce Talbot - ECB Reporters Network supported by Rothesay
12 May 2025
0

Sussex 284 (90.3 overs) and 256 (79.4 overs) Worcestershire 180 (70.4 overs) and 313 (106.2 overs) Sussex win by 47...

Sussex struggle to make it to day three against Nottinghamshire

Sussex face final day at Hove with Worcestershire chasing tough target

by Bruce Talbot - ECB Reporters Network supported by Rothesay
11 May 2025
0

Sussex 284 (90.3 overs) and 256 (79.4 overs) Worcestershire 180 (70.4 overs) and 117-3 (40 overs) Sussex go into the...

Sussex struggle to make it to day three against Nottinghamshire

Sussex end day two in control against Worcestershire at Hove

by Frank le Duc
10 May 2025
0

Sussex 284 (90.3 overs) and 66-3 (26 overs) Worcestershire 180 (70.4 overs) Fynn Hudson-Prentice picked up a career-best five for...

Manager of Brighton and Hove Albion’s women team dismissed after allegations

Brighton and Hove Albion slay Wolves to keep European dream alive

by Frank le Duc
10 May 2025
0

Wolverhampton Wanderers 0 Brighton and Hove Albion 2 Brighton and Hove Albion kept themselves in the race for European qualification...

Load More
August 2021
M T W T F S S
 1
2345678
9101112131415
16171819202122
23242526272829
3031  
« Jul   Sep »

RSS From Sussex News

  • Axe murder defendant denies charges 16 May 2025
  • Police officer pleads guilty to sharing child porn 16 May 2025
  • Man escapes with cash and cigarettes after armed robbery 15 May 2025
  • Investigation under way into scrap yard fire in Newhaven 14 May 2025
  • Man jailed for stalking chief constable 14 May 2025
ADVERTISEMENT
  • About
  • Contact
  • Support
  • Newsletter
  • Privacy
  • Complaints
  • Ownership, funding and corrections
  • Ethics
  • T&C

© 2023 Brighton and Hove News

No Result
View All Result
  • News
    • Opinion
  • Arts and Culture
    • Music
    • Theatre
  • Sport
    • Cricket
  • Newsletter
  • Public notices
  • Advertise
  • About
  • Contact

© 2023 Brighton and Hove News