The industrial action follows a ballot of Unite members which returned a 95.30 percent vote for strike. Workers, including ambulance service workers, are fighting for a fair pay rise and urgent action to avert an `existential crisisin the service. He is currently in the US on trade talks. Under trade union law, emergency cover will still be provided and staff can leave the picket lines to attend. Roads Service workers pay is dependent on a productivity-based payment which is subject to the determination of managers. (c) Sky News 2023: Teachers' strike: 200,000 to walk out in three days of industrial action over pay The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. The local council . 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. Trusts have been in contact with patients who will be affected and further details are available on trusts' websites. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Striking healthcare workers say they are underpaid and their departments do not have enough staff. The industrial action follows a ballot of Unite members which returned a 95.30 percent vote for strike. Strikes Northern Ireland Monday 23 January 2023, 5:49pm The union says Ministers must drop their "resistance" to engage with health trade unions on pay. Mr Mulholland said meetings had been held between management and trade unions to ensure "life and limb" was protected during strike action and called on politicians to invest more money in healthcare services. Staff, who have just brought us through a global pandemic, are feeling weary, disheartened even exasperated. Teachers are staging a 12-hour strike, due to end at midday, in a dispute over pay and the future of the profession. "We need valued, we need paid appropriately and we've had enough and this is going to continue unless they do something about it.". The majority of teachers and school leaders in the region took part in a 12 -hour strike on. the majority of teachers will hold a half-day strike. "While these people make the bread, they also have to buy it," he told the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme. Without a Stormont executive and extra money in the education budget it's hard to see how the teachers' pay dispute can be resolved. With chronic low pay making it impossible torecruit and retainessentialhealth workers, the health service in Northern Ireland is facing an existential crisis. A NIAS spokesman said the service had talked to unions to identify what services would be exempt from strike action so the most clinically urgent patients could still be seen. Firstly, it was decided to call for a vote of no confidence in the current Chief Executive. In the absence of a new pay offer, a further day of strike action has now been planned on March 16. Staff at the plant are seeking a 13.4% wage increase. Edel McInerney, vice president of the NEU Northern Ireland, said: "It's been such a paltry sum that's been offered that actually in fact it's a pay cut that they're offering us, not a pay deal - we're looking for fair pay. BBC News NI has contacted Hovis for comment. 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. The company can well afford to increase the pay of these workers to provide some protection from the surge in inflation. She said Secretary of State Chris Heaton-Harris should be in Northern Ireland "talking about the crisis in our health service". When are the next strikes and what pay do workers want? UK and European Union seal a deal to resolve post-Brexit trade rules for Northern Ireland. The Pharmacists' Defence Association (PDA) has launched its first ever strike ballot of pharmacists employed by the NHS under Agenda for Change terms and conditions in Northern Ireland. The union representing transit operators in the Fraser Valley plans to significantly escalate its job action on Monday. 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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. 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. unions said this would not settle the dispute as it was lower than inflation. The announcement comes as talks as discussion with the UK health secretary failed to make any progress on the 2022/23 pay claim. Lead regional officer for roads service workers Gareth Scott explained the context for the strike: Our members in Roads Service are dependent on the allocation of productivity-based duties in order to make bonus, which leaves them subject to potentially less favourable treatment from managers. The move from Unite, Unison and Nipsa members, will involve some nurses, ambulance and hospital support staff. "Everybody's speaking with a clear voice here today, everybody's saying the same thing. For media enquiries ONLY please contact Unite senior communications officer Barckley Sumner on 07802 329235 or 0203 371 2067. Required fields are marked *. "I have a warning for the government, we're not finished, we're not going anywhere, we have just started," she added. 4000 members of Unite the union will join strike action tomorrow (Tuesday) at health and social care workplaces, across Northern Ireland. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Workers at a Hovis bakery in south Belfast are due to walk out on Sunday in a dispute over pay. Action by Unite members continues in Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland has a policy of pay parity with England HSC workers covered by the Agenda for Change framework.". The strike action by industrial staff who work on the roads network is due to commence on Monday (27 February). NUJ members working for BBC England have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action. Unites Northern Ireland officer, Kevin McAdam, told the BBC: "We felt it was really important to move the dates to the (February 21) to coincide with teachers to demonstrate that there are two important things in life, one is health and the other is education.". Strike action: What do rail workers, nurses and others want? In Northern Ireland many teachers were offered 3.2% for 2021/22 and 2022/23. 2023 BBC. "There are no negotiations in Northern Ireland, there's no-one to talk to. Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. 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 . Northern Ireland teachers' unions INTO and UTU, as well as . 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. Trade publication Deadline reported the strikes could coincide with the King's Coronation. Teachers in Northern Ireland are at "breaking point", a leading trade union official has said. Bread supplies across Northern Ireland are likely to be affected by planned industrial action, a union has warned. Unite today has served notice of a ballot of its members in Northern Ireland's councils, the Education Authority and Housing Executive on strike action in pursuit of a 10 percent pay increase. Schools across Wales will shut again this Thursday when . (LogOut/ Road Workers demand productivity payment be integrated into payscales to remove potential mechanism for pay victimization. Our members will be joining members of other health trade unions on the picket lines tomorrow, and Unite has already notified employers that we will also be taking action on 16, 17, 23 and 24 February. Workers, including ambulance service workers, are fighting for a fair pay rise and urgent action to avert an ` existential crisis' in the service. 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. "Given that policy position, the absence of ministers and current budgetary realities, there is no scope for a resolution at local level. Lead regional officer for Unite in health in Northern Ireland, Kevin McAdam confirmed the unions members would be joining the picket lines with members of other health unions with a first 24-hour action set for January 26. Northern Ireland has a policy of pay parity with England HSC workers covered by the Agenda for Change framework," the department said. The pair hold a press conference later in the afternoon. 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". In Northern Ireland teachers were offered a 3.2% rise spread over two years from 2021 to 2023. Paramedics on strike will still be on standby to respond to the most serious calls. Rees-Mogg defended the Northern Ireland protocol bill, which No 10 seems happy to shelve, saying it has the support of "the person who had a mandate from the British voters" - ie, Boris Johnson. However, Unite members have well-founded concerns that the company is engaging in a fake TUPE process. This action's for them, not just us.". In the absence of a functioning Stormont Executive, prime minister Rishi Sunak needs to show someleadership,bang some headstogether, make surethatwe can get back to negotiations and offer NHS workers inNorthern Ireland a better deal.. It said that in some front-line social work teams 42% of posts are unfilled, leaving staff with "unsustainable caseloads". Video, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said:Unites members have voted overwhelmingly for strike action and rejected the governments derisory pay offer, which is a real terms pay cut. Workers at the Royal Victoria hospital went on strike in January, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. Our members will be joining members of other health trade unions on the picket lines tomorrow and, unless sense prevails and our members are made a better offer, there will be a second day of strike actionon March 16th.. (LogOut/ 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. The industrial action follows a ballot of Unite members which returned a . Unite confirms all out strike action will commence at Belfast Bakery from 6am on Sunday 5th March, Union warns strike is likely to impact bread supplies on shelves across Northern Ireland. Turnover rose 8 percent in 2020 and rose marginally further in 2021 to 361.2 million. The government has already awarded a 1,400 pay increase for health workers for 2022/23, but unions have roundly criticised this for being far below the rate of inflation. "Our members are not prepared to stand by while their pay packets shrink and their living costs rise," he said. "Trust workers have been forced to resort to food banks and take on additional shifts/second jobs," the union said in a statement. Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Credit: PA Images UNISON's health. Read about our approach to external linking. Thousands of education and health workers in Northern Ireland have taken part in strike action on Tuesday. 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. Union warns of `existential crisis for health service as NI wages fall further behind. 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. 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. The NEU has estimated that around 200,000 members across England and Wales . 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.. 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. Sunak and von der Leyen sign the Northern Ireland Protocol deal. The four teaching unions involved were the National Association of Schoolmasters and Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT); the Irish National Teachers' Organisation (INTO); the Ulster Teachers Union (UTU) and the National Education Union (NEU). Rail union TSSA has agreed nine per cent pay deal bringing to an end . GMB members are continuing action short of strike. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. "Our aim is to disrupt the administration of the service, not to disrupt the patients but obviously it will impact to some extent," he said. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); 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, Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window). Colin Quinn from Downshire psychiatric hospital in Downpatrick, County Down, said "something needs to be done" to help healthcare workers affected by the cost-of-living crisis. Every day they put their shoulder to the wheel and go above and beyond for patients and the public needing health care. These strikes are being taken as an absolute last resort. Unite represents 4,000 workers across the health and social care trusts and the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service (NIAS). Seven days of planned strikes by some staff at universities in Northern Ireland will not now go ahead. Unites health and social care members will picket at hospitals across NIfrom 07:00hours. NUJ members working for BBC Local have overwhelmingly voted in favour of strike action over the corporation's plans to cut local radio and have called a 24-hour strike starting at 11am on March 15, until the same time the following day, which will hit coverage of the Spring budget. "We want respect and that respect should be reflected in getting an honest day's pay for an honest day's work, which we're not getting and which we haven't got. 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. The Windsor Framework seeks to reset the fractious relationship between London and Brussels stemming from the Northern Ireland Protocol, the mechanism for preventing a hard border on the island of . Anne Speed, from Unison, said the dispute was about more than pay. This action could last months. 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. Unite stands fully behind our members in Roads Service who are striking for dignity in their place of work.. 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.. 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. (LogOut/ 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. A union representing bakery workers in Belfast has warned that upcoming strike action could impact bread supplies across Northern Ireland. Standing alongside European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen at a news conference in Windsor, Sunak said the two sides . . 4000 Unite members to strike on 26 January, February 16 ,17 and 23, 24. Further strike action will happen on 16 March. Road users have been urged to be extra careful and prepare for potential delays in the event of unforeseen incidents ahead of planned industrial action by members of the GMB and Unite unions. Change). Ambulance workers will be among those returning to the picket lines over pay demands and safer staffing levels. Union urges members to vote yes for 10 per cent after strong rejection of employers' insulting 1.75 per cent pay offer. Read about our approach to external linking. He said "a huge amount" of healthcare workers had recently joined unions, which he hoped sent "a strong message out to the government that their attacks on unions isn't working". From 7am, around 4,000 members of Unite including ambulance workers will strike over pay and staffing levels. Change), You are commenting using your Twitter account. "This is the only way we can get our message through to government regionally and nationally.". Thousands of health and education workers are on strike in Northern Ireland today. "I'm pleased to report that we have now made a decisive breakthrough," Sunak said . Workers at Newry, Mourne & Down District Council prepare to return to industrial action for fairtreatment. Unison members on the picket line outside Antrim Area Hospital, Colin Quinn says healthcare workers have "had enough", Deirdre Murphy has been a staff nurse at Daisy Hill hospital for over 24 years, More than 20,000 NI healthcare staff are on strike, Striking health service workers say they want better pay and increased staffing levels, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. Members of Unite employed by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) are preparing for strike action in a dispute over "pitiful pay.". Hovis has previously said its Belfast operation produces 35% of all bread sold in Northern Ireland. 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. 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. "It's not this easy job that people make it out to be, you're not just out colouring with kids all day, you're doing real work that's hard and meaningful and important," she told BBC News NI. Unison RVH Branch secretary Conor McCarthy said the union was calling for direct negotiations with the British government. 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