Healthcare assistants on Teeside take industrial action over a dispute over their pay band.
BBC NewsMembers of the trade union Unison are calling for annual salaries to be increased by up to £2,000 with back pay.
North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust and South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation trust said they would "once again be prioritising urgent and emergency care". About 96% of Unison members who are healthcare assistants at the two trusts backed the strike action.Clare Williams, Northern regional secretary for Unison, said: "Over time they have been taking on more and more duties that are above their current band.Healthcare assistant Michelle Cook says she does the same tasks as colleagues who are paid far more
Michelle Cook, one of the healthcare assistants picketing the James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough said it "should never have come to this point". She said: "My clinical duties vary from taking bloods to doing wound care dressing and we're doing the same work as colleagues who are getting paid far more than us, it's just not fair."They have also offered the workers back pay in line with the new banding as far back as July 2021.The trusts are urging the public to keep A&E free for "the most serious and life-threatening conditions and to use NHS 111 online for urgent but non-life-threatening medical need".
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