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Doncaster Hospital workers on strike for £9,000 back pay
Skilled maintenance workers at the Doncaster and Bassetlaw hospitals trust were on strike on 19 November in a row over pay.
The trust has reneged on a national agreement to pay a recruitment and retention allowance to these workers, which is worth £3,000 a year. The workers are owed £9,000 in back pay.
The allowances were agreed as part of the national pay and grading scheme for the NHS, Agenda for Change.
Unite, the workers' union have already won a tribunal case where a hospital trust in Newcastle refused to pay the allowance to four workers. And in June a threatened strike of hospital workers in Northern Ireland forced the Department of Health to pay the premium.
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