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A Northumberland County Council refuse wagon.

Labour leader calls for fair deal for key council workers amid union talks

The Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital in Cramlington is one of the hospitals operated by Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

Union announces back pay offer accepted by health workers

Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, Cramlington

Strikes to take place at six hospitals in missing wages row

The Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital in Cramlington is one of the hospitals operated by Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

Healthcare assistants set to go on strike

Northumberland County Council's headquarters at County Hall in Morpeth. Photo: Northumberland County Council.

Council drop plans to change employee benefit after union opposition

The union has called on the Government to take action to rectify the issue.

Figures reveal £121.5m funding shortfall in North East council budgets

Northumberland Labour leader Scott Dickinson introduced the motion.

Council adopts union's charter against workplace violence

School support workers, cleaning staff and janitors are currently on strike in Scotland as the Unison union remains locked in a pay dispute with education chiefs. (Credit: Jane Barlow/PA Wire)

Breaking Scottish school support staff stage strike in pay dispute

County Hall in Morpeth.

Study predicts North East councils facing multi-million pound deficits

Breaking Nurses to vote on England-wide strikes after rejecting 5% pay rise

International Day of the Midwife falls on Friday, 5 May in 202

Happy International Day of the Midwife 2023: How to get involved
Today marks the 21st International Day of the Midwife - Royal College of Midwives tips on how to get involved.
Beth Franklin

Members of the Royal College of Nursing union could strike until Christmas if no deal is reached with the government over pay. (Photo by Hesther Ng/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Breaking Royal College of Nursing warns of more strikes

Royal College of Nurses members, campaigning for fair pay and conditions, pictured previously taking part in industrial action at Altnagelvin Hospital. Photo: George Sweeney. DER2250GS - 38

Breaking RCN rejects Government’s pay offer - new 48 hour strike to go ahead

MP Julie Elliott alongside paramedics on the picket line outside Sunderland Ambulance station.

Breaking NHS Unison members accept pay deal offer in England

Nursing strikes 2023: Royal College of Nursing, the GMB & Unison back new pay offer - but it’s not over yet

Breaking Nursing strikes 2023: Unions back pay offer - but it’s not over yet

North East Ambulance Service.

Surging levels of mental ill health among North East Ambulance Service staff

National ambulance and NHS trade unions have announced a day of strike action to take place tomorrow.

NHS advise when to use 999 as ambulance driver strikes begin today

More than one in 20 ambulance patients waited more than an hour to be handed over to accident and emergency services between December 11 and 18.

Royal College of Nursing warns healthcare system 'close to overheating'

Christina McAnea, general secretary of UNISON, poses with ambulance workers at a picket line outside the Waterloo ambulance station in London on December 21, 2022. - Striking UK ambulance workers took to the picket lines, escalating a dispute with the government over its refusal to increase pay above inflation after recent walkouts by nurses. (Photo by Niklas HALLE’N / AFP) (Photo by NIKLAS HALLE’N/AFP via Getty Images)

Ambulance workers in England announce two new strike dates

Members of the GMB, Unite and Unison unions will take industrial action on Wednesday, December 21. Picture: North East Ambulance Service.

Patient advice from North East Ambulance Service ahead of strike

List of all the strikes taking place in the lead up to Christmas 2022

Army staff helped operate ambulance services during the COVID-19 pandemic.

1,200 troops to cover for striking ambulance & Border Force staff

A group of fraudsters have been posing as ambulance staff and knocking on doors asking for financial support ahead of upcoming industrial action.

Fraudsters posing as ambulance staff seen asking for donations

North East Ambulance Service staff will strike later this month

GMB confirms date North East Ambulance Service staff will walk out

Staff at the National Coal Mining Museum in Wakefield are on strike (Photo credit OLI SCARFF/AFP via Getty Images)

Wakefield’s National Coal Mining Museum staff to strike over pay

Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital in Cramlington is one of the biggest in the county and employs hundreds of staff.

Union warns NHS risks mass exodus if parking fees reintroduced

Cllr Glen Sanderson, leader of Northumberland County Council.

Northumberland council leader moves to reassure staff over wage bill comments

Chief Pharmacist Richard Harrison with the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine.

Covid jab deadline looms for unjabbed carers in Northumberland
One in 27 Northumberland care home staff have not received a single dose of the coronavirus vaccine, figures reveal, as the deadline for compulsory vaccinations looms.
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Rishi Sunak to end public sector pay freeze in Autumn Budget: what that means fo...

Unison has urged ministers to abandon the “draconian” no jab, no job policy (Photo: Getty Images)

Mandatory jab deadline for carers risks ‘catastrophic’ staff shortages

Teacher virus jab call

Call to put over 2,000 teachers on virus jab priority list

These are your rights as a worker during the coronavirus pandemic

A minute's silence will be held across the UK today (28 April) to commemorate the key workers who have lost their lives from Covid-19 (Photo: Shutterstock)

Here’s what you need to know about today’s minute’s silence for key workers

If you’re a smoker then nipping out for a cigarette or vape at work may be much needed (Photo: Shutterstock)

These are the laws about smoking or vaping at work - and how many breaks you can...

County Hall in Morpeth, where a rally is planned next week. Picture by Jane Coltman

Public rally planned in row over council's split with anti-racism charity

County Hall in Morpeth, where a rally is planned next week. Picture by Jane Coltman

Public rally planned in row over council's split with anti-racism charity

Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital in Cramlington.
Picture by Jane Coltman

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