{"id":236874,"date":"2025-07-04T07:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T07:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/236874\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T07:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T07:53:09","slug":"northumbria-healthcare-staff-to-strike-for-48-hours-over-pay-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/236874\/","title":{"rendered":"Northumbria healthcare staff to strike for 48 hours over pay row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Unison <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cjw2y5jgn3eo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">previously said<\/a> the changes came after the trust recognised healthcare staff jobs had become &#8220;increasingly complex&#8221; over the years, yet they had been paid &#8220;the lowest hourly rate in the NHS&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Clare Williams, Unison&#8217;s northern regional secretary, said: &#8220;For years, staff worked way above their pay grade. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s only right that having moved them up the NHS salary scale, their managers give them a sensible amount of compensation to cover all the wages they were denied.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said the trust needed to the &#8220;right thing&#8221; and &#8220;come up with a significantly improved offer&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A trust spokesperson said the role was &#8220;re-banded&#8221; with effect from 1 July 2024, and pay was backdated to 1 April 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They added: &#8220;We acted quickly to make the banding changes and pay backpay to those who were entitled to it before Christmas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is the fourth trust in north-east England to be in dispute with staff over wage banding, with workers in Teesside, South Tyneside and Sunderland negotiating a higher backpay deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unison previously said the changes came after the trust recognised healthcare staff jobs had become &#8220;increasingly complex&#8221; over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4316],"tags":[105,4348,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-236874","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114793887546906463","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}