SHERIDAN CALLS FOR BOOST TO HEALTH WORKERS' PAYScottish Socialist Convenor Tommy Sheridan was campaigning on the hustings at the UNISON Health Conference in the Mitchell Theatre, Glasgow today.
He highlighted some of the key health policies of the SSP (see Health excerpt from SSP Manifesto, pp. 17-19). In particular he underlined the SSP’s policy to pay all NHS staff a minimum wage of £7.32 an hour and introduce a 35-hour-week for all health workers, give nurses a 13% pay rise and restore wages for student nurses to combat the 1-in-4 drop out rate and encourage badly-needed recruitment of new nursing staff.
Tommy Sheridan said,
“Last year MSPs voted themselves a 13% pay rise to £48,000. If that’s good enough for them, it’s good enough for health workers who do far more valuable jobs than MSPs. We will cancel all private contracts within the health service and will return all staff to direct NHS employment on NHS wages and conditions.”
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For further information contact Tommy Sheridan on 07887 795075 or Hugh Kerr on 01620 890518/07713 063647
