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Article: Health unions accept `national' pay deal
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 5, 1995
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BARRIE CLEMENT
Labour Editor
The threat of industrial action by 600,000 nurses and other
health workers was averted last night after union leaders accepted
a deal which involves the controversial introduction of a national
minimum wage.
After a day of talks, employees' representatives agreed a
settlement in which local deals with NHS trusts will be
under-pinned by a mechanism to protect the lowest paid. Union
leaders will argue the deal concedes the principle of a national
minimum wage when the Government is attacking Labour for espousing
such a policy.
Under the peace formula there would be a two-year bargaining
sequence. In the first year the 500 trusts would negotiate their
own pay ...