RCN responds to South West pay cartel report

Published: 04 March 2013

In response to the recent publication of the South West pay, terms and conditions consortium report, Jeannett Martin, Regional Director for the Royal College of Nursing in the South West, said:

“The campaign by the RCN and other unions has been successful in diverting the pay cartel from their original intention to implement local pay systems across the South West region.

“I think staff and the wider public will understandably ask what these trusts have spent £200,000 of tax payer’s money on. This paper does no more than highlight ways to ensure that the current national pay system is implemented properly. Frankly, every trust should not only have been aware of the information in this report but could already have acted on it.

“I would urge all trusts to formally withdraw from the pay cartel immediately and begin rebuilding relationships with their staff who are the very people who can offer realistic, sustainable answers to the financial challenges,” Jeannett concluded.