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Union raises formal trade dispute amid AI job cuts consultation at NGH

Jobs at Northampton General Hospital could be affected as the NHS prepares to introduce new artificial intelligence technology.

Hospital jobs at risk as it prepares to introduce AI technology

Library picture (Photo by OLI SCARFF / AFP) (Photo by OLI SCARFF/AFP via Getty Images)

Public service workers swap day jobs for falconry experience to boost wellbeing

UNISON has issued a statement about the situation at St Andrew's Hospital in Northampton.

Staff 'anxiety' at hospital as union calls for 'accountability' from leaders

Centre Director Rachel Bott received Bleed kit From UNISON

UNISON donates Critical Bleed Kit to community centre

Left to right: Scott from “Off The Streets”, Rachel Bott Centre Director, The Doddridge Community Centre and Ian Pratt Paramedic and UNISON Learning rep.

Union donates life-saving bleed kit to community centre

Changes to the level of cover provided by fast response vehicles across EMAS are being discussed.

Safety concerns as ambulance provider looks to cut fast response vehicles

The scheme is set to start on Thursday (May 1)

Northamptonshire hospitals announce scheme requesting voluntary resignations

KGH healthcare assistants took industrial action in June/National World

Healthcare assistants at KGH and NGH announce month-long strike during August

The picket line of healthcare assistants at Northampton General Hospital on Wednesday morning (June 5).

‘Angels of the NHS’: ‘Forgotten’ healthcare assistants strike over back pay row

NGH and KGH

Healthcare assistants vote to strike in pay row

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

NMVC "In Unison"

Choirs Performing For Motor Neurone Disease Charity

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

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
Members of the Royal College of Nursing union could strike until Christmas if no deal is reached with the government over pay.
Rahmah Ghazali

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

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

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

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

Northamptonshire ambulance workers who are members of GMB will walk out for 24 hours on two dates in December

EMAS ambulance workers to stage two 24-hour walkouts in December

East Midlands Ambulance Service workers in Northamptonshire have voted for strike action in their long-running dispute over pay and staffing levels

Ambulance crews in Northants vote to join strike over NHS pay and staffing

West Northamptonshire Council says it is "making progress" tackling a projected £7.6 million black hole in this year's budget

How did council shrink £7.6m overspend by one-third in just two months?
Cabinet finance member says it’s down to “holding vacant posts, delivering services more efficiently and maximising income opportunities… to name a few”
Kevin Nicholls

Public service union UNISON warns Northamptonshire councils face £40 million deficits next year — but that figure could grow after Chancellor Jeremy Hunt's budget

Union warns of county councils’ £40m deficit as Bank hikes interest rate

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

Ambulance workers in Northamptonshire are being urged to back calls for strike action in protest at the government's imposed pay deal

Northamptonshire ambulance crews join NHS nurses and midwives in strike ballots

St Andrew's Healthcare on Billing Road, Northampton.

Union tables claim to increase pay rise offered by mental health hospital

Rishi Sunak to end public sector pay freeze in Autumn Budget: what that means fo...

Unions are warning of staff shortages in county care homes after health secretary Sajid Javid refused to extend the jabs deadline

'Get a jab or get another job,' Sajid Javid's message to 750 care home staff

Prime Minister Boris Johnson clapping for carers during the Covid pandemic. Image: Getty

Northants care workers paid the lowest wage in the country - as pay talks contin...

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

UNISON on site at Kettering General Hospital.

NHS staff vote on Government's pay offer as UNISON visits NGH and KGH

The service cares for young adults across the North of the county

'Decimated' North Northants home care service based in Corby is on its knees, wa...

The agreement protects 10,000 jobs at the two hospitals

Union chiefs hail deal securing 10,000 NHS jobs at Northamptonshire's hospitals

In Northamptonshire, 4,420 out of 6,161 eligible staff at older adult care homes had a first Covid jab by April 11

More than a quarter of county care home staff have NOT had Covid jabs

NHs staff have battled through the pandemic but may have to wait months for a promised pay rise. Photo: Getty Images

Health union puts pressure on PM to speed up pay rise for Northamptonshire's NHS...

Some care home workers in our region claim they are not getting regular coronavirus tests promised by the Government. Photo: Getty Images

Care home workers claim they're not getting regular tests as Covid deaths rise i...

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Union launches 'Northamptonshire Needs To Work' campaign to secure future of loc...

Northampton General Hospital

Mental health sickness absence rose by nearly a third at Northampton General Hos...

St Andrew's Hospital in Northampton has responded to UNISON's accusations of making changes to staff contracts without consulting them beforehand.

St Andrew’s Hospital responds to union’s threat of taking action over redundancy...

Northamptonshire's public showed appreciation for NHS workers during the pandemic — now Unison wants the government to do the same. Photo Getty Images

Northamptonshire's NHS workers call on Government to show its appreciation by gi...

Northamptonshire County Council has confirmed the sick pay change.

Care staff now employed by Northamptonshire County Council win fight for better ...

Parking will remain free for NHS staff at Northampton General Hospital. Photo: Getty Images

NHS heroes at Northampton General Hospital can keep their free parking

The complaint against DRET is being assessed.

Health and Safety Executive looks into complaint against Northamptonshire academ...

The unions say DRET has not engaged with them as well as other school trusts and say it is putting staff and pupils at risk.

Unions want urgent health and safety investigation into academy trust's decision...

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

Northants Together

Remember Joanna and others at 11am today as Northamptonshire joins trade union t...

Kev Standishday (centre) celebrates the win with colleagues.

Branch of the Year again for Northampton Unison

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...

Chief executive Theresa Grant has told staff they will not be getting a pay rise (as previously suggested).

No pay rise for Northamptonshire council staff as finances not on track

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