Unison RVH Branch

🟣 Come on down and see us on Thursday 15th October outside Spoons restaurant to recognise World Menopause Day
🟣 Get some goodies and information on how to help with Menopause at work and with every day life tasks.
Call down and enquire about any issues ongoing within the workplace

Royal College of Nursing (RCN), with over half a million members in the UK and beyond, has cut sponsorship ties with Israeli pharmaceutical giant Teva.

Join the growing networks of healthcare workers and activists refusing to stay silent about the destruction of Palestinians’ right to healthcare by escalating BDS pressure in hospitals, pharmacies, medical institutions, and beyond.

💜💚 World Mental Health Day

Your mental health matters. Remember, as a UNISON member there is support available when you need it — you don’t have to face difficult times alone.

💜 Find support and advice https://unison.org.uk/get-help

UNISON is concerned about proposed amendments tabled at the last minute by the Education Minister to the Education (Holiday Meal Payments) Bill due to be heard in the Assembly on Monday.

UNISON supports this Bill because children entitled to free school meals shouldn't lose that support during school holidays. With so many families already struggling to make ends meet, holiday meal payments make a real difference.

The Bill complements UNISON's campaign for universal free school meals, which would ensure every child has a nutritious meal each day, remove stigma and help families with the cost of living.

Providing support during the holidays is an important step, and we will keep campaigning for provision that reaches every child.

The proposed changes put the implementation timetable in the control of the Minister and the Department. As a result, parents and children would have no guarantees about when, if ever, payments might begin. In response, UNISON and other organisations have signed a public statement calling on all MLAs to reject the amendments tabled by the Education Minister and support the Bill as it currently stands.

Children and families cannot afford to wait. We need legislation that actually delivers support, not a law that leaves families waiting for payments that might never arrive.

UNISON members, and the wider public, can voice their support for holiday meal payments by emailing their MLAs. Online campaign platform Act Now has created a page that allows you to send a message on this issue to all your MLAs which you can access here:

Email your MLAs: Don't leave families waiting for holiday meal payments Paul Givan's proposed amendments could leave families waiting indefinitely for holiday meal payments, even if the Bill becomes law. MLAs vote on Monday 12 October.

Save the Date! October is Black History Month
UNISON will be celebrating on the 29th October.

📢𝗣𝗔𝗬 𝗨𝗣 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗛𝗦𝗖 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗙𝗙 – 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗦𝗨𝗟𝗧𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗡𝗢𝗪 𝗢𝗣𝗘𝗡 𝗢𝗡 𝗜𝗡𝗗𝗨𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗟 𝗔𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡

HSC workers in Northern Ireland are still waiting for the commitments that have been made on the 3.3% pay uplift for 2026/27 and on the introduction of the Real Living Wage to be implemented. The NHS workforce in England received the 3.3% pay uplift in April and pay parity has once again been broken.

3.3% is not enough, but health and social care workers in Northern Ireland cannot be left behind on pay. Commitments to pay parity and to implement the Real Living Wage must be honoured. Uplifts to your pay are being unacceptably delayed.

UNISON is now consulting members to ask if you would be prepared to take legal industrial action, including strike action, if these delays continue. This is not an industrial action ballot, but responding to this consultation is important to deliver a clear message to the Health Minister and Executive that you will not be left behind on pay.

Plans are underway for UNISON to ballot you for industrial action if the progress needed on your pay is not made swiftly.

🗳️ The consultation closes at 𝟭𝟮𝗻𝗼𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝟭𝟵 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿.

✉ Check your email inbox (including your junk mail) to vote in the consultation. Your membership number is needed to verify your vote and this should be included in the email you will have received. Each member should only vote once and please do not share your email with others, as it is unique to you.

If you have not received an email and want to vote in the consultation, or if you have any queries about the consultation, contact: [email protected]

For more information on the campaign go to - https://shorturl.at/tQw0n

UNISON NHS Pension Scheme Clinic!!

UNISON members are invited to attend our upcoming NHS Pension Scheme Pension Clinic at Galway House.

📅 4th & 5th November
⏰ 6:30pm – 9:30pm
📍 Galway House

The clinic is for UNISON members only and is a great opportunity to get information and guidance around your NHS pension.

✅ You only need to attend one of the two evenings — simply choose whichever date suits you best.

⚠️ Places are limited, so please contact Unison RVH Belfast branch as soon as possible to book your place.

To book please contact
Unison RVH Belfast Branch on Tel: 02896151286 alternatively call to office between : 9am - 2pm Mon till Fri , Level 2 OPC
Please share with any UNISON colleagues who may be interested. 💚💜

The Northern Ireland Executive must act now
NHS staff in England have received a 3.3% pay award for 2026/27, in line with Pay Review Body recommendations. This was paid in April 2026.

The NI Executive has not agreed a budget and the 3.3% pay award has not been implemented in Northern Ireland.

The Department of Health has been directed to implement the 3.3% without the 2026/27 budget having been agreed, but approval to do so is needed from the Northern Ireland Executive.

UNISON NI is campaigning to tackle low pay across our health and social care services. Far too many of our members suffer from persistently low pay and we are determined to see that change through demanding that the Real Living Wage be set as the minimum standard across health and social care.

The Real Living Wage is calculated based on the real cost of living by the Living Wage Foundation, with it currently set at £13.45 per hour.

Following our UNISON campaign, commitments have been made that the HSC will pay the Real Living Wage in 2026/27 and that any uplift required will be backdated to 1st April 2026.

However, there is no clarity as to when in 2026/27 the Real Living Wage will start to be paid, with implementation of the Real Living Wage to be completed at the same time as payment of the overall pay award, which is being unacceptably delayed.

NHS Pay Northern Ireland | UNISON - the public service union Pay up for HSC staff Have your say on HSC pay Share our campaign Share on Email Share on Facebook Share on X Share on LinkedIn SubHeading NHS staff deserve more Year after year, health workers in England are expected to put up with below inflation pay awards. UNISON is pushing for better headline pa...

Unison Northern-Ireland Regional secretary Patricia McKeown spoke strongly today about Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement and especially around Boycott TEVA - Apartheid is BAD Medicine
UNISON call for the Belfast City Council to actively promote an Apartheid Free Zone within the City Hall " it's not a plaque on a wall that takes up the campaign "
Unison RVH Branch will support any of the membership ,if they want to actively make a stand against complicity by refusing to handle Israeli Teva products....there are alternatives 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸