![]() ![]() It’s the quality of the service and the pay of the staff that always, always suffers.” How can it be cheaper to pay someone else to cut your hedge than buy a pair of hedge clippers and do it yoursel. Many of these same staff now join the 2.5 million people using foodbanks to survive."Īndrea Dickens, Nottinghamshire Healthcare Branch Secretary, added: "Prices keep going up and wages are just not keeping up. “How long can this continue? Our NHS staff risked their lives last year and some of them didn’t make it. “We’ve had pay restraint for eleven years” Jamie Godber, Nottingham University Hospitals UNISON Branch Secretary told a packed crowd at the rally. It came as part of a national day of action on the afternoon of Saturday, July 3, and demands included a £2,000 pay rise for all NHS staff, an end to race discrimination and the opposition of the privatisation of the health service. The protest, which began in Old Market Square before moving along Mansfield Road and into the Forest Recreation Ground, was staged by members of the Unison union. NHS staff and MPs marched through Nottingham city centre during a protest which called for a fair pay rise for all workers. ![]()
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