When are the next strikes and what pay do workers want? "Everybody's speaking with a clear voice here today, everybody's saying the same thing. In January, more than 20,000 healthcare staff, Harry and Meghan told to 'vacate' Frogmore Cottage, Fungus case forces Jack Daniels to halt construction, Rare Jurassic-era bug found at Arkansas Walmart, China and Belarus call for peace in Ukraine, NFL hopeful accused of racing in deadly car crash, Beer and wine sales in Canada fall to all-time low, Ed Sheeran says wife developed tumour in pregnancy. "They're stripping it down piece by piece," Orlaigh explained. It is understood union representatives are to meet the Department of Education later this week for further talks. Gerry Murphy, from INTO, said teachers had been backed into a corner while the UTU's Jacqui White said the unprecedented move was a reflection of the strength of feeling. Unite has notified management of a series of dates for a campaign of industrial action at Caterpillar in Northern Ireland. The first strike will occur for the four day production period on Monday 11 April and be followed up the week after Easter with a further four day stoppage on 25 April. Read about our approach to external linking. This is the only way we can get our message through to government regionally and nationally.". Turnover rose 8 percent in 2020 and rose marginally further in 2021 to 361.2 million. While strike action to date has hit a nerve - they know future action will have to cause a lot more pain. Northern Ireland teachers' unions INTO and UTU, as well as . Workers at Newry, Mourne & Down District Council prepare to return to industrial action for fairtreatment. ", Health staff set dates for action over pay dispute. "Our aim is to disrupt the administration of the service, not to disrupt the patients but obviously it will impact to some extent," Mr McAdam said. Unites lead regional officer for health in Northern Ireland, Kevin McAdam, said: Nobody should be in any doubt regarding our members determination to defend their living standards amid an unprecedented cost of living crisis. Road Workers demand productivity payment be integrated into payscales to remove potential mechanism for pay victimization. Northern Ireland representative Kevin McAdam said 87% of Unite's members had rejected a "below inflation pay award" with a vote in favour of strike action. Workers, including ambulance service workers, are fighting for a fair pay rise and urgent action to avert an `existential crisisin the service. would not settle the dispute as it was lower than inflation. Workers at the Royal Victoria hospital went on strike in January, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. Workers, including ambulance service workers, are fighting for a fair pay rise and urgent action to avert an ` existential crisis' in the service. Unite regional officer Sean McKeever said emergency talks were planned for Wednesday morning in an attempt to resolve the dispute. STORY: Standing alongside European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen at a news conference in Windsor, Sunak said the two sides had agreed to ease trade rules for the British province and give its lawmakers more control over the laws they have to follow. Video, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. "If we don't take a stand we wont have a health service. RMT union members voted to strike after their demand for a 7% pay rise was rejected in favour of a 3% offer, and an initial three days of industrial action were scheduled for 21, 23 and 25 June, with further disruption taking place in July and August, and over the following autumn and winter. There's no health minister. Pickets will be established at the following eleven depots: Ballykeel Roads Depot, 190 Larne Link Road, Ballymena; Woodburn Roads Depot, 1a Crescent Road, Derry/LDerry; County Hall, Drumragh Avenue, Omagh; Silverhill Roads Depot, 53a Shore Road, Enniskillen; Carn Roads Depot, Carn Road, Carn Industrial Estate, Portadown; Armagh Roads Depot, 44 Seagoe Industrial Estate, Craigavon; Newry Roads Depot, Springhill Drive, Carnbane Industrial Estate, Newry; Sprucefield Roads Depot, Sprucefield Roundabout, Lisburn; Airport Road Roads Depot, Airport Road, Belfast; Bangor Roads Depot, 72 Balloo Road, Bangor; Sandyknowes Roads Depot, 543 Antrim Road, Newtownabbey. An estimated 200,000 teachers in England and Wales will take part in three days of industrial action as their dispute over pay continues. The strike was ended after staff accepted an 8% pay increase. However, Unite members have well-founded concerns that the company is engaging in a fake TUPE process. Two meetings of Council staff were held last week in Newry and Downpatrick, hosted by the four trade unions representing workers of all grades NIPSA, SIPTU, GMB and Unite. The move from Unite, Unison and Nipsa members, will involve some nurses, ambulance and hospital support staff. Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. This action's for them, not just us.". This union will not accept any attempt to undermine our members terms and conditions now or in the future. Roads Service maintenance workers in Unite commence one week strikeaction, Overwhelming 93 per cent vote for industrial action at Cargotec in fake TUPEdispute, Thousands of Unite health members to join Northern Ireland-wide strike in demand for fair wages and safestaffing. It said management remained committed to reaching a resolution that ensured teachers were fairly remunerated. Workers at a Hovis bakery in south Belfast are due to walk out on Sunday in a dispute over pay. Unite has notified the employer that continuous (that is all-out) strike action . Union warns strike is likely to impact bread supplies on shelves across Northern Ireland. National Education Union (NEU) members mobilised on picket lines and in regional protests and rallies in northern England while Education Institute of Scotland (EIS) and NASUWT members struck in Scotland. 28 Feb 2023. In Northern Ireland teachers were offered a 3.2% rise spread over two years from 2021 to 2023. 25 January: Members of Unite, which represents 4,000 health and social care workers across Northern Ireland, will be joining members of other health unions in taking industrial action tomorrow (Thursday 26 January). The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. (LogOut/ Ambulance workers will be among those returning to the picket lines over pay demands and safer staffing levels. Strike action by the union was scheduled to take place on Thursday and Friday, as well as 23 and 24 February. The Department of Health said it fully understood the frustration of staff but there was no scope for resolution at local level. Unites lead regional officer for health in Northern Ireland, Kevin McAdam, said: Nobody should be in any doubt regarding our members determination to defend their living standards amidst an unprecedented cost of living crisis. Unites members will be joining striking health workers from other health trade unions in marches to Belfast City Hall and other rallies across Northern Ireland in a show of solidarity for striking education workers. Brooke Davies Tuesday 28 Feb 2023 12:01 am. 24H. Thousands of education and health workers in Northern Ireland have taken part in strike action on Tuesday. Although the British Government has promised a 1,400 pay award for 2022-23, and have said they are willing to discuss pay levels in the new financial year, unions have said this still falls well below the rate of inflation. Nurses represented by the largest nursing union, the Royal College of Nursing, have paused strike action to enter talks with the government over pay, but the state-run NHS still faces a planned . Advertisement Coins. Without a Stormont executive and extra money in the education budget it's hard to see how the teachers' pay dispute can be resolved. Four teaching unions took part in a half-day strike over pay - their first walkout in six years - with most schools closed until midday. Northern Ireland Health and Social Care workers strike for improved pay. Strike action: What do rail workers, nurses and others want? Healthcare in Northern Ireland, Scottish airports and some UK government services will all be affected by strike action today (Picture: Metro.co.uk) Today's another busy day of strikes, with ambulance drivers and civil servants among those picketing over pay and working conditions. More than two hundreds Unite members employed by the Roads Service of Northern Ireland will be joining with colleagues in the GMB in taking strike action for a week commencing Monday 27th February. 2023 BBC. Processing means any action . Daily update for February 28. Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. He said: Unitesnearly 4000 health members in Northern Ireland have returned a 87% rejection of the imposition of a below inflation pay award to health workers in the region. In January, 20,000 healthcare staff in Northern Ireland, including ambulance staff and nurses, took part in a one-day strike as part of a dispute over pay. Teachers in Northern Ireland are at "breaking point", a leading trade union official has said. Massive 87 per cent average vote for strike action across Northern Ireland trusts. Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said:Unites members overwhelmingvotefor strike actionsignals their determination tosecurea cost of living pay increase and safe staffing for patients. NUJ members working for BBC England have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action. From 7am, around 4,000 members of Unite including ambulance workers will strike over pay and staffing levels. 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Workers were told they would get a 2022-23 pay award of 1,400, but unions said this would not settle the dispute as it was lower than inflation. Strike action: What do rail workers, nurses and others want? The strike action occurs after members rejected a pay offer from local government employers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland of just 1.75 percent for the year 2021-22. Our members are seeing the NHS eroded before their eyes and patients lives are being placed at risk due to chronic underfunding. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak struck a deal with the European Union on post-Brexit trade rules for Northern Ireland on Monday, saying it would pave the way for a new chapter in London's relationship with the bloc. Some large retailers reported small supply issues at the time, but other suppliers stepped in to cover gaps in provision. The industrial action follows a ballot of Unite members which returned a 95.30 percent vote for strike. . Change), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Union officials added that 80% of management grade staff and 60% of general grade members voted to accept the offers. The strike follows ballot across all five health trusts and the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service which returned an average 87 per cent vote in favour of strike action. 27 Feb 2023 10:54:04 BBC First ballot results. Workers of Unite the union have voted by a margin of more than 95 percent for strike action in pursuit of a cost of living pay increase at Hovis, the leading Belfast Bakery. "There are no negotiations in Northern Ireland, there's no-one to talk to. "This time it's about defending the fundamentals of the health service and unfortunately that means taking industrial action to get the message across," he added. That mood is fuelled by an absence of local government and a feeling that no-one actually cares or even wants to engage. The union representing transit operators in the Fraser Valley plans to significantly escalate its job action on Monday. But unions said that due to changes in pay scales many teachers would get less than 3.2%. Credit: PA Images UNISON's health. More than two hundreds Unite members employed by the Roads Service of Northern Ireland will be joining with colleagues in the GMB in taking strike action for a week commencing Monday 27 th February.. In a statement it said the department remained "extremely concerned at the scale of the current pressures on health and social care services - and the impact this is having on patients, service users, carers and staff". Comment. (LogOut/ "We need valued, we need paid appropriately and we've had enough and this is going to continue unless they do something about it.". 4000 members of Unite the union will join strike action tomorrow (Tuesday) at health and social care workplaces, across Northern Ireland. Instead, members will now walk out on Tuesday February 21, when the majority of teachers are taking part in a half-day strike. unless the union has a strike fund to cover wages. Civil servants have been placed in the unenviable position that they're having to implement decisions that they're not paid to do. The statement added that members were not only taking action over pay but in protest at staffing levels and travel reimbursement. Mr McAdam, Unite's Northern Ireland representative, said: "We felt it was really important to move the dates to the 21st (February) to coincide with teachers to demonstrate that there are two important things in life, one is health and the other is education.". Roads Service workers pay is dependent on a productivity-based payment which is subject to the determination of managers. Workers of Unite the union have voted by a margin of more than 95 percent for strike action in pursuit of a cost of living pay increase at Hovis, the leading Belfast Bakery. The industrial action follows a ballot of Unite members which returned a 95.30 percent vote for strike. Harry and Meghan told to 'vacate' Frogmore Cottage, Explosive found in check-in luggage at US airport, Fungus case forces Jack Daniels to halt construction, China and Belarus call for peace in Ukraine, Rare Jurassic-era bug found at Arkansas Walmart, West Africans to leave Tunisia after race row, Dozens of girls treated after new Iran poisonings, Fire knocks out half of Argentina's power grid. 12 weeks for 12. Read about our approach to external linking. (c) Sky News 2023: Teachers' strike: 200,000 to walk out in three days of industrial action over pay Unite members across all five health trusts and the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service returned an average 87 per cent vote in favour of strike action. With chronic low pay making it impossible torecruit and retainessentialhealth workers, the health service in Northern Ireland is facing an existential crisis. Ambulance staff includes paramedics, call handlers and support workers. Unite confirms all out strike action will commence at Belfast Bakery from 6am on Sunday, March 5 N. egotiations over the Northern Ireland Protocol are "inching towards conclusion", the Irish Taoiseach has indicated. In England and Wales, ambulance workers are to join nurses in taking strike action on 6 February in what will be the biggest NHS walkout in this dispute. Deirdre Murphy, a staff nurse at Daisy Hill hospital in Newry, County Down, said the health service is "not on its knees, it's flat on the ground". Roads Service workers pay is dependent on a productivity-based payment which is subject to the determination of managers. Thousands of education and health workers in Northern Ireland have taken part in strike action on Tuesday. In the absence of a new pay offer, a further day of strike action has now been planned on March 16. STRIKE action by health workers in Northern Ireland has been moved to next week to coincide with industrial action with teachers. Some staff at Queen's University Belfast (QUB) and Ulster University (UU), 20,000 healthcare staff in Northern Ireland, including ambulance staff and nurses, took part in a one-day strike, Harry and Meghan told to 'vacate' Frogmore Cottage, Explosive found in check-in luggage at US airport, Fungus case forces Jack Daniels to halt construction, China and Belarus call for peace in Ukraine, Rare Jurassic-era bug found at Arkansas Walmart, West Africans to leave Tunisia after race row, Dozens of girls treated after new Iran poisonings, Fire knocks out half of Argentina's power grid. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Four teaching unions took part in a half-day strike over pay - their first walkout in six . The strike pickets will be established at 8am on Monday 27 February and will last seven days and affect roads maintenance work across Northern Ireland. Workers were told they would get a 2022-23 pay award of 1,400, but unions said this would not settle the dispute as it was lower than inflation. Roads Service maintenance workers in Unite commence one week strikeaction. (LogOut/ The Unite Union, which represents around 4,000 health. Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. 2023 BBC. Workers of Unite the union have voted by over 95% for strike action in pursuit of a cost of living pay increase at Hovis, the leading Belfast Bakery. Unions are pacing themselves they know they are in for the long haul. The pay offer would mean another real terms pay cut and comes after eleven years of pay freezes. The Department of Education has pointed out that the education budget is under real pressure. Unite the union has confirmed that its members working across the health and social care sector in Northern Ireland will be participating in an industrial campaign involving all health trade unions after they voted overwhelmingly for strike action in pursuit of a cost of living pay increase. Leo Varadkar was speaking as speculation mounts that a deal may be . She said Secretary of State Chris Heaton-Harris should be in Northern Ireland "talking about the crisis in our health service". The strike pickets will be established at 8am on Monday 27 February and will last seven days and affect roads maintenance work across Northern Ireland. Paramedics, nurses and hospital staff on strike, Majority of NI teachers to hold half-day strike, Ambulance staff announce new strike dates, Students join staff on university picket line, Human error to blame for train crash - Greek PM, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. Striking teachers hold a rally . Commenting, Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said: Cargotecs success is due to the commitment and expertise of its workforce in Dundalk and elsewhere. Unite has established a 70 million strike fund which we are deploying to back workers in struggle. Northern Ireland has a policy of pay parity with England HSC workers covered by the Agenda for Change framework," the department said. Unite has notified the employer that continuous (that is all-out) strike action will commence this Sunday 5th March with strike pickets going up at the Bakery at 6am that morning. Unite the union has confirmed that its members working across the health and social care sector in Northern Ireland will be participating in an industrial campaign involving all health trade unions after they voted overwhelmingly for strike action in pursuit of a cost of living pay increase. The industrial action follows a ballot of Unite members which returned a 95.30 percent vote for strike. Read about our approach to external linking. Striking healthcare workers say they are underpaid and their departments do not have enough staff. Every day they put their shoulder to the wheel and go above and beyond for patients and the public needing health care. They mustget on and do so without delay., Hope or Austerity: A Road Map for a Better Fairer Ireland after the Pandemic, Available from all good bookshops or online from www.theliffeypress.com, Hovis workforce votes overwhelmingly for industrial action in pursuit of cost of living payincrease. Of those balloted, 83 per cent voted in favour of strike action,17 per cent voted against strike action. The workers feel that management have weaponised the bonus scheme, a situation which is intolerable. 0 coins. the majority of teachers will hold a half-day strike. The Unite Union, which represents around 4,000 health workers, had planned 48 hours of strike for today and tomorrow as well as on February 23 and 24. Read about our approach to external linking. They mustget on and do so without delay.. (LogOut/ Union urges members to vote yes for 10 per cent after strong rejection of employers' insulting 1.75 per cent pay offer. 4000 members of Unite the union will join strike action tomorrow (Tuesday) at health and social care workplaces, across Northern Ireland. Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said:Unites members overwhelmingvotefor strike actionsignals their determination tosecurea cost of living pay increase and safe staffing for patients. Change), You are commenting using your Twitter account. On Tuesday, the union said its members working for BBC England had backed industrial action over the proposals, with 83% voting in favour of strikes, and 92% voting in support of action short of a strike, with a 69% turnout rate. Today, members of the National Education Union (NEU) in . In December, Unite members voted with an average 87 percent majority across all five health trusts and the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service for strike action. Teachers, nurses, ambulance and hospital staff have been taking to picket lines. A senior minister and former hardline rebel on Brexit fought back tears last night as he backed Rishi Sunak's Northern Ireland deal - and revealed the toll the past seven years have taken on his . It said that in some front-line social work teams 42% of posts are unfilled, leaving staff with "unsustainable caseloads". The workers seek changes to their terms and conditions meaning the integration of a productivity bonus into their payscales. Successful negotiations between the government and trade unions will be key to their resolution. Change). "Our members are not prepared to stand by while their pay packets shrink and their living costs rise," he said. The NASUWT has been calling for a 12% increase in salaries, following deadlock over a pay deal for the past year. It has a responsibility to treat this workforce with dignity and respect. Unite represents 4,000 workers across the trusts and the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service (NIAS). Schools across Wales will shut again this Thursday when . The strike follows ballot across all five health trusts and the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service which returned an average 87 per cent vote in favour of strike action. The majority of teachers and school leaders in the region took part in a 12 -hour strike on. More than two hundreds Unite members employed by the Roads Service of Northern Ireland will be joining with colleagues in the GMB in taking strike action for a week commencing Monday 27th February. 22 February: Unite, which represents over 200 workers at the Cargotec (formerly Moffett Engineering) facility in Dundalk, today (Tuesday) announced that a ballot of members had returned an overwhelming 93 per cent vote in favour of industrial action, starting with a one-day stoppage on 10 March. "We're not going to be down the same track again in another three or four years' time," he said. A union representing bakery workers in Belfast has warned that upcoming strike action could impact bread supplies across Northern Ireland. Action by RMT and Aslef unions over pensions and staffing will hit service on day of budget Tube workers in the RMT union will strike on 15 March, joining Aslef in a 24-hour stoppage that will . "We want safe staffing levels because one nurse can not do the job of three people, it is totally unsafe," she said. Over the past year NHS staff, rail workers, teachers, postmen and others have all taken strike action demanding better pay and conditions amid the cost-of-living crisis. "At the end of the day, it has to be safe for patients". The dispute follows the companys refusal to engage meaningfully at the Workplace Relations Commission and the Labour Court regarding their proposal to transfer workers under what Unite describes as a fake TUPE, meaning established jobs, pay and conditions could come under future attack. The NEU has estimated that around 200,000 members across England and Wales . (LogOut/ VideoAt the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece, Havana Syndrome unlikely to have hostile cause - US, How 10% of Nigerian registered voters delivered victory, Sake brewers toast big rise in global sales, The Indian-American CEO who wants to be US president, Blackpink lead top stars back on the road in Asia, Exploring the rigging claims in Nigeria's elections, 'Wales is in England' gaffe sparks TikToker's trip. Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said that prime minister Rishi Sunak needs to show leadership: If proof were needed of the determination of NHS workers to fight for a better deal its here in the 87 per cent vote recorded in the Trusts in Northern Ireland. In Northern Ireland many teachers were offered 3.2% for 2021/22 and 2022/23. Teachers were joined at a number of rallies across Northern Ireland by striking workers from the health unions. Roads Service maintenance workers out on the picket lines across Northern Ireland this morning as a week of strike action commences! Nipsa, which has more than 10,000 members, some of whom are nurses, said wages had been "progressively eroded through below inflation pay-rises and pay freezes". Teachers from across four different unions are due to strike tomorrow in Northern Ireland after 66% of NEU teacher members voted to join the action. Teachers' strike. Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said: With chronic low pay making it impossible to recruit and retain essential health workers, the health service in Northern Ireland is facing an existential crisis.. (LogOut/ 25 January: Members of Unite, which represents 4,000 health and social care workers across Northern Ireland, will be joining members of other health unions in taking industrial action tomorrow (Thursday 26 January). Unites health and social care members will picket at hospitals across NIfrom 07:00hours. The Cargotec workers have Unites full and unstinting support in this battle to defend their jobs., Union warns of `existential crisis for health service as NI wages fall further behind. The PM and ministers have been missing in actionbut it istheirjob to ensure that NHS bosses make a realistic offer to the workers who keep our health and social care services running. Unite represents 4,000 workers across the trusts and the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service (NIAS). Further strike action will happen on 16 March. The workers seek changes to their terms and conditions meaning the integration of a . There is a furious new attitude among health workers and it's being felt not only on strike days but every day at work. The Unite union, which represents workers at the bakery, said the strike would shut down bread production if talks with Hovis management were unsuccessful. The statement added: "The industrial dispute is a national dispute which is only resolvable at national level. 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