Striking workers burn hospital ‘sacking letters’
HOSPITAL workers burned what Unison has dubbed their ‘sacking letters’ during a bitter industrial dispute over pay cuts.
More than 200 striking administrative workers demonstrated outside a Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust board meeting at Pinderfields Hospital in Wakefield yesterday morning.
The defiant strikers set fire to some of the 162 dismissal and re-engagement notices trust bosses have mailed during this week’s five-day strike. The debt-ridden trust – which is battling to make savings of £24m – wants to impose pay cuts of up to £2,800 a year on up to 500 low paid mainly female staff.
PICTURE: SIMON HULME