UNION leaders have pledged to spend the summer campaigning for the Scottish Government to end the pay cap for NHS workers.
Members of Unison have already staged demonstrations outside Holyrood in a bid to win a larger wage rise for health service staff and now it is set to make the one per cent pay cap imposed on public sector workers the focus of a summer-long campaign.
Tom Waterson, chairman of Unison Scotland’s health committee, said: “Members across Scotland will be using the next few months to secure Scottish pay bargaining and a fair deal for NHS workers.”
A Scottish Government spokeswoman said: “We remain open to discussing issues of concern with Unison and others. In Scotland, we’ve applied the pay increases recommended by the independent NHS Pay Review Body again this year, supplemented by additional measures to assist the lowest paid, and the continuation of the no-compulsory-redundancy guarantee.”
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