This week at NUHT

Dear Reader,

What a busy week at NUHT!!

The number of cases keep rolling in, TUPE transfers, Dismissal Appeals, Sickness review meetings, the list goes on.

Lots of discussions with HR this week about the constant denial of our member's rights that we thought were enshrined in paragraph 3.2 of the Disciplinary Policy.

The greatest irony is that management appear to be ignoring this section of the policy, whilst at the same time disciplining our members for allegedly breaching other policies.

This appears to be one rule for staff and another rule for managers, and this is after we thought we had agreed these policies and fully expect them to be binding on both parties!!

Hay ho, we'll keep on raising these issues and we'll keep the pressure on HR to apply fairness.

We have been warning that the Trust will eventually have to turn to compulsory redundancy to meet the financial cuts they are faced with and we believe that a dozen 'redundancy notices' have been issued this week. The Trust have denied they are redundancy notices but we think any letter that informs a member of staff that they are losing their job IS a redundancy notice, an extremely unwelcome Christmas present!!!

Now is the time, more than ever, for you to be a member of UNISON.

On a completely different subject, I recall a famous quote " The only certainties in life are death and taxes", well, following a consumer boycott seriously effecting their profits Starbucks have been forced by people power to accept " death OR taxes" and have agreed to pay tax!

I hope the CEO of Starbucks has used his mobile to phone the CEO of Vodaphone to get them to do the same....I for one would drink to that...but not with a Starbucks coffee!!

Until next time,

LHS,

Bennie