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UNISON North West

9 months

And so concludes an amazing 3 days of action at Wirral Hospitals. A thread of some of the highlights from this week 🧵 Please Retweet to spread awareness of what's going on

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

2 years

The OCS strikers will not be silenced! 📢 Watch their message in this video and join them at the rally on Saturday 20th August at The Marton Institute in Blackpool at 11 . ✊

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

8 months

Due to a serious traffic incident in the area, many CSWs on the Wirral picket have immediately returned to work to help. We dispersed our picket and members are returning home to be on-call to help. Our thoughts are with everyone impacted by this terrible incident.

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

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Kat is an EMT working for the NHS for 7 years. She's also a single mum and works 40+ hours a week to make ends meet. She's on strike for better pay and conditions for NHS workers ✊

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

1 year

👏Claps👏 don't 👏 pay 👏 bills 👏 UNISON Ambulance workers in Burnley are keeping warm on the pickets today 🔥🔥

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

1 year

NHS workers in Liverpool loud & proud this morning on the picket line 📢📢

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

1 year

🎉HUGE WIN FOR LIVERPOOL HOSPITAL WORKERS🎉 After extensive work from Unison Liverpool Hospitals Health Branch, the biggest hospitals NHS trust will bring nearly 700 outsourced jobs in-house, with their terms and conditions being improved to match their NHS colleagues 😁

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

9 months

Hundreds of clinical support workers have just walked off night shift in the Wirral demanding fair pay ✊ The picket line is huge and this is just the night shift workers!

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

1 year

After yesterday's strike, UNISON members in the North West Ambulance Service will be out again on the 11th and 23rd of January We're not going anywhere until we win the pay rise we deserve

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

2 months

🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨 After 6 months of action, Wirral's clinical support workers have won 🎉 Over 650 of the NHS' lowest paid workers stuck together, fought together and won fair pay and back pay to April 2018 🤩 Outstanding 👏👏👏

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

7 months

The Wirral's CSWs will not be striking again next week. They've won.

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

6 years

1/2 BREAKING NEWS @NorthWestUNISON welcomes the withdrawal of proposals to outsource 900 estates & facilities workers to WWL Solutions. #NHS employment is secure! Congratulations to our members in Wigan & Leigh health branch and members of @NorthWestUnite . Your solidarity won!

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

1 year

Aintree Rising! Over 500 UNISON members on the early morning picket. Massive support from the public #PutNHSpayright

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

2 years

Members from Southport Hospital went to speak to Southport MP Damien Moore about the cost of living crisis. He no-showed. But @AngelaRayner had something to say...

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

8 months

While our picket at Warrington and Halton continues for now, we will be ceasing posting on social media today as a mark of respect for the victims and their families on the Wirral.

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

1 year

It's strike day again, with thousands of NHS workers on strike in the North West at Liverpool University Hospitals, Liverpool Heart and Chest, and North West Ambulance Service. They're set up and ready to go at the Liverpool Royal!

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

6 years

High Court stops Lancashire County Council awarding Children's Health services contract to Virgin Care -

Lancashire County Council loses public health contract dispute

Two Lancashire hospital trusts took the council to court over its award of a public health contract.

www.bbc.co.uk

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

5 years

Low paid Cleaners, Caterers & Porters standing together outside Broadgreen Hospital against multi-national-private-profiteering-giant ISS who are heartlessly holding back 1 weeks pay from their own workers who struggle to put food on the table @ISSUKComms @LivEchonews #oneteamnhs

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

4 years

Monumental victory for our striking NHS workers in Blackpool and St Helens! They took on a multi-national outsourcing giant and won. Significant increase in hourly pay ✅ Improved unsocial hours payments ✅ Better sick pay schemes ✅

Homepage - UNISON North West

northwest.unison.org.uk

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

4 months

😯The never ending picket line... Wirral CSWs remain strong after an astounding 62 days of strike action. These workers are inspirational.

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

1 year

Follow us today for updates on our pickets at Liverpool hospitals and the North West Ambulance Service 🧵 Amazing early morning scenes at the Liverpool Royal 🙌 Lots of energy from members🎇

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

8 months

🚨MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 East Cheshire NHS Trust has fallen. 💥 Full back pay to April 2018. Thousands of pounds in the pockets of low-paid workers. 💷 The fight continues. ✊

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

2 years

VICTORY AT OCS 🎉 🎉 🎉 Strikers working for OCS at Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Trust have won their long-running dispute. After a two-year campaign and 26 days of industrial action, the strikers have won:

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

3 years

Great news from Cheshire West as 540 social care workers will be brought back in-house 👏👏👏 This will mean ✅Driving up employment standards ✅Increased local control ✅Better democratic oversight Hopefully many more councils will pursue this model 🙂

Cheshire West and Chester Council to bring adult social care in-house

Cheshire West and Chester Council says it will stop using its own arm's length company in 2022.

www.bbc.co.uk

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

3 years

🥳 Amazing news as security workers at Blackburn and Burnley hospitals win their campaign🎉 All security workers- previously employed by Engie- will now be in-sourced to the NHS and will receive NHS pay and conditions! @unisontheunion @TUCNorthWest

Homepage - UNISON North West

northwest.unison.org.uk

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

5 months

🪧Wirral's Clinical Support Workers are out on strike again today and will be during every weekday of this month. Many Trusts in the region have settled HCA disputes without strike action. Why is @WUTHnhs any different? CSWs have been on strike SINCE AUGUST LAST YEAR 😯

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

4 years

We're delighted to support @AngelaRayner who used to be our regional convenor. She is in the business of organising and winning! #AngelaForDeputy

UNISON - UK's largest union

@unisontheunion

4 years

"Angie has a long association with UNISON as a member and a union rep and has an intimate understanding of the day-to-day struggles facing working people and their families across the UK." - @DavePrentis

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

3 years

End ‘poverty wages’ for social care workers, Angela Rayner demands

‘Our social care workers were underpaid and undervalued even before this crisis struck’

www.independent.co.uk

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

1 year

Still going strong at Wigan in to the night 🌃

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

3 years

This is 10 days of food according to private school catering company Dolce If they're offering this AND cutting their staff's wages by 20% then the question must be asked: What ARE they doing with public money?🤔

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

1 year

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

2 years

Merry Christmas.🎄 The best gift you can give to your past, present and future self is to join a union!

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

6 years

BREAKING NEWS: 1/2 Victory in Bolton NHS pay dispute! @unisontweets members at iFM win full NHS 3 year pay award. Thanks for all your solidarity! @NHSpay4iFM #unisonorganising

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

5 years

Great news. Care Line in Tameside have agreed to formally recognise UNISON and will pay staff at least £9 per hour from 1 January. @CW4Change

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

5 years

Low paid security, catering and cleaners employed by mega-rich-multi-national private company ISS making a big noise outside Aintree Hospital. Shameless ISS are holding back 1 weeks pay and pushing these essential workers into poverty @ISSUKComms @LivEchonews #oneteamnhs

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

2 years

Pickets have begun for the @OCSDispute workers at the Harbour in Blackpool They're asking for the same pay as their NHS colleagues

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

2 years

Over 900 UNISON Band 2 Clinical Support Workers and Healthcare Assistants at the Northern Care Alliance Trust signed a collective grievance demanding to be re-banded up to Band 3 and to be back-paid to April 2018.

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

1 year

Snowy scenes at the Environment Agency picket line in Warrington this morning ❄️

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

3 years

Whether it's Chartwells ripping-off children or Dolce cutting staff wages one thing is clear: Private provision of school catering is a scam

UNISON in Schools

@UNISONinSchools

3 years

Appalling. If this cost £30 in a shop you'd walk away, and yet it's meant to feed a growing child for 2 weeks of lunches. We could do so much better for our school meals than letting private companies pocket profits.

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

2 years

🎉🎉Amazing news from @SalfordCouncil which has committed to ensure that all care workers will receive at least the Foundation #LivingWage . This is a huge win for the @StandUpForSC campaign, and follows @OldhamCouncil 's recent Living Wage commitment 👏

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

7 months

End the bloodshed now.

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

4 years

Good luck for tomorrow @AngelaRayner ✌️💜✊

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

5 years

Liverpool Women's Hospital staff win pay rise after strikes

Unison said they will get a rise worth more than £1 an hour after strikes to secure NHS wage rates.

www.bbc.com

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

1 year

Good boys for the NHS 🐶

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

4 years

A huge victory. Congratulations to the striking members and thank you to @GordonMarsden and @Chris4BNC for their support throughout the dispute.

Blackpool Gazette

@The_Gazette

4 years

Cleaners at Blackpool Victoria Hospital emerge victorious in strike over unequal pay

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

3 months

After a long campaign, Mid-Cheshire HCAs have won 🤩 Thousands of pounds into the pockets of the lowest paid in the NHS 🔜

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

5 years

Congratulations to our Regional Convenor @PaulaBarker1 on her selection as @UKLabour prospective parliamentary candidate for @WavertreeCLP ✊ #UnionMade #JC4PM

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

9 months

What's purple, green and massive? This picket line 🟣🟢⚪

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

9 months

Great to have the support of @MickWhitleyMP on the picket line 🤝 @WUTHnhs @HolmesJanelle - the whole Wirral community is behind the striking workers. Time to do the right thing!

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

3 years

A massive legal win for @NorthWestUNISON and @UNISON_Legal - Employers can no longer mistreat staff who take part in industrial action, says UNISON 👏👏👏

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

1 year

Hundreds of health care assistants at Leighton Hospital in Crewe have signed a joint complaint demanding fair pay. They have spent years doing clinical duties but only paid for personal care.💪 More than 50 workers from one shift joined UNISON to take part in the protest.👊

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

8 months

🚨 Breaking news from Mid Cheshire 🚨 #PayFairForPatientCare

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

8 months

Great turnout today from UNISON North West activists at the #ToriesOut demonstration in Manchester

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

2 years

🚨 FINAL WARNING 🚨 This is our last post about the NHS pay ballot. Please like and share and if you know anyone at all who might not have voted, now is the time to remind them to do so. Thank you.

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

1 year

Follow us and @unisontheunion today to keep up-to-date with what's going on on the picket lines 🧵

UNISON - UK's largest union

@unisontheunion

1 year

Ambulance staff across England are taking strike action today in the hope the government will listen to them on the state of the service and hold meaningful pay talks Send messages of support, and write to your MP to #PutNHSPayRight

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

1 year

The picket has begun at Liverpool Broadgreen ✊

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

3 years

On #IWMD21 we remember the 55 working members in North West Region who died as a result of Covid-19 in the past year. Their families and colleagues are in our thoughts. More than ever, remember the dead, fight for the living 😢✊

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

9 months

💥 The shocking untold story behind these "greedy" workers! 🏥

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

2 years

Congratulations to Andrea Egan of Bolton branch on her election as UNISON National President. Only the 2nd President from North West Region in our union's nearly 30 year history! uNDC22

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

2 years

UNISON members in 4 NHS employers across the North West have beat the Tory anti-trade union threshold and will be striking soon ✊ Staff at North West Ambulance Service, NICE, Liverpool Heart & Chest and Liverpool University Foundation Trust will announce strike dates shortly👀

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

3 years

#UnitedAgainstTheTories

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

3 months

Over 130 of Whiston Hospital's HCAs gathered today to plan their campaign for fair pay 📣 They decided to ballot for strike action 💪

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

2 years

UNISON members showing our solidarity with @RMTunion and @nautilusint members against the disgraceful attack by their employer ✊✊ An injury to one is an injury to all and we stand with P&O workers. Shame on you @POferries 😡

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

4 years

UNISON North West deeply regrets to announce the death of Raph Parkinson. Raph was a much liked and respected colleague, a committed staff union representative who loved his family and was dedicated to the cause of trade unionism and socialism.

Homepage - UNISON North West

northwest.unison.org.uk

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

2 years

Solidarity to the strikers at St Monica's from the strikers at OCS in Blackpool 🤝 @nsunison @unisontheunion @OCSDispute

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

5 years

Labour ‘will ban’ outsourcing of public services to private firms

New plan marks determination to shift focus from Brexit splits to economic reform

www.theguardian.com

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

5 years

Rip it up and start again! Rather than negotiate with UNISON, last week @compassgroupuk sent letters out to @sthknhs staff indicating that they would impose a new pay deal. These strikers will not be divided. They are union members and they are standing strong for fairness!

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

3 years

Hospital workers at Cumberland Infirmary working for @mitie are beginning their 2nd round of strike action today. ✊ They're braving the rain at picket lines at @NCICNHS . After working through the pandemic, the least they deserve is the #NHS rates for working nights & weekends!

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

1 year

NICE workers out bright and early fighting for NHS pay in sub-zero conditions🥶👏

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

5 months

⚠️This is currently one of the biggest scandals in the NHS. Band 2 Clinical Support Workers @WUTHnhs have been performing Band 3 clinical duties for years (decades, in some cases) without getting paid for it. Their demands are reasonable. Pay them what they're owed!

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

5 years

BREAKING NEWS! Tomorrow's planned strike at @LHCHFT has been called off as our members have unanimously decided to accept an offer received earlier today. @LHCHFT have agreed to fully fund pay parity for @compassgroupuk workers including enhancements, backpaid to April 2018. 1/2

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

6 months

📣Sensational win from the Healthcare Assistants at WHH Trust📣 Following 9 days of industrial action, the Trust was finally forced to meet workers demands with an offer of retrospective regrading and back-pay to April 2018, which has been overwhelmingly accepted by members 🙌

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

2 years

There are more Royal Mail strikes tomorrow 💪 We support our posties in their fight for fair pay 🤝 Join the pickets across the North West by visiting our friends at @StrikeMapUK

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

9 months

Wirral CSWs are a force to be reckoned with 💪 Day 2 of strike action and the picket lines are still going strong 🔥

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

5 years

Excellent news! Our Salford Royal Hospital security guards have won their dispute for #NHS pay and conditions. These unsung heroes keep staff and patients safe and deserve NHS rates. Shows that we can and will win in @AddactionUK and @compassgroupuk !

Homepage - UNISON North West

northwest.unison.org.uk

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

9 months

💥STRIKE BALLOT NEWS💥 HCA's at @MidCheshireNHS have voted an incredible 99% YES to taking strike action demanding back-pay in line with other trusts. This is the 3rd successful ballot of HCAs over this. They'll be joining striking colleagues in Warrington & The Wirral.

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

4 months

After 6 months, Wirral's CSWs aren''t going anywhere. 🤩

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

5 years

Congratulations to Compass staff at @LHCHFT who will now be paid the NHS pay rate they deserve. Strikes in St Helens, Whiston and Blackpool will still take place tomorrow. Please support these brave strikers by attending pickets. #ONENHS , nobody left out. 2/2

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

1 year

Bustling Broadgreen 😁

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

9 months

Like their colleagues in the Wirral, Warrington and Halton, HCAs in Mid-Cheshire are fighting for the money they're owed after years of working above their pay band 💪 Sign this petition to show your support:

Pay Fair for Patient Care – support Mid Cheshire Healthcare Assistants

Hundreds of nursing support staff at Mid Cheshire hospitals have been working above their pay grade for years. We are calling on their trust to pay them the wage they deserve and to award...

www.megaphone.org.uk

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

9 months

Workers were joined by trade union superstar and @RMTunion General Secretary Mick Lynch who came down to show his support for the strike 🤩 The whole movement is behind Wirral's Clinical Support Workers!

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

5 years

Pickets still going strong here at Blackpool: "We're not gonna be leaving til we get more pay!" #payupnowCompass

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

2 years

Some pictures from the OCS strike over the last couple of days. Post your messages of support below👇

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

1 year

🎉 OCS WORKERS WIN AGAIN !🎉 After last year's successful industrial action, OCS workers won a huge pay rise. This month, the workers have secured equal unsocial hours rates to their NHS colleagues 😁

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

6 years

89% support for strike action on 73% turnout by @unisontweets members at Wigan hospitals - next step in our escalating campaign to hault proposals to transfer 900 jobs out of the NHS in Wigan @unisonhealth

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

5 years

Brilliant group of @compassgroupuk workers raring to go at our pickets. @unisontweets members at @sthknhs and Blackpool Victoria Hosp on strike for #ONENHS - fairness with NHS colleagues

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

9 months

The Wirral hospitals strike has gone global! 🤩 Was a pleasure to receive the head of the Colombian TUC @fabioariascut and the Chilean TUC @EricCamposBonta on the picket line today 🇨🇴🇨🇱 ✊

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

4 months

Nikki Stockwell, a striking Clinical Support Worker on the Wirral and a newly nominated rep, receives a standing ovation from regional council today. This is what solidarity looks like ✊🏻

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

2 years

Liverpool John Moores staff will be out on strike on Monday ✊ Join the picket lines to show your support 👇

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

9 months

And so round 2 Wirral Hospitals strike begin, still no sign that bosses will match other trust's deals 😡...

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

6 years

Strong early morning picket lines in Bolton. Hospital workers determined to secure the NHS pay rates they were promised and deserve. @ifmbolton @boltonnhsft #nhspay4ifm

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

3 years

Wonderful celebration ⁦ @ManCathedral ⁩ to mark 20 years of campaigning for the living wage with ⁦ @GMCitizens ⁩ leading the way with great testimonies and commitment to lift the most vulnerable workers out of pay poverty for the betterment of all society #LivingWageWeek

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

6 years

Gone but not forgotten. The great trade unionist Rodney Bickerstaffe remembered on the Spennymoor banner at today's #DurhamMinersGala

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

7 months

Ceasefire Now! End the occupation! UNISON northern, north west, Scotland and Northern Ireland regions call for an immediate ceasefire to stop the killing in Gaza

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@NorthWestUNISON

1 year

Great turnout as ever at Stockport Ambulance Station 💪

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

1 year

Last week hundreds of Band 2 Healthcare Assistants and Clinical Support Workers marched on their trust boards at Arrowe Park, Clatterbridge, and Macclesfield hospitals 😍 They were demanding fair pay for years of doing Band 3 clinical work above their pay grade 📢

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

5 years

Our youngest steward Lily is here on the @compassgroupuk pickets supporting her mum who deserves more pay! #ONENHS

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

9 months

A snippet of the picket line at @WUTHnhs this morning. Strong and defiant. Clinical Support Workers on the Wirral won't be short changed any longer. 📣 FULL BACKPAY NOW 📣

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UNISON North West

@NorthWestUNISON

5 years

UNISON NW Regional Convenor gives OCS management a very clear message on behalf of the striking workers @OCSIRELAND @LiverpoolWomens @LivEchonews @unisontweets #oneteamnhs #ONENHS

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@NorthWestUNISON

1 year

Solidarity with every worker out on strike today from UNISON North West 💜

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