00:00What do we want? Fair pay! Now!
00:08Karen Leonard, GMB organiser.
00:11We're here because we're not getting anywhere with the NHS board.
00:14This group of workers have been looking for a fair pay process
00:18to recognise the work that they do for some time now
00:21and we are at a breakdown point with the employer.
00:25We're here for the demonstration hoping that it would put pressure on the employer
00:29to do the right thing and continue the process
00:32and give the workers the pay that they're entitled to.
00:35So we've got district nurses, Greater Glasgow and Clyde district nurses
00:38and there's the full-time organisers and supporters from the trade unions
00:43but we're here with the district nurses to support them.
00:46How unusual is it potentially for nurses to go on strike?
00:49It's very unusual and believe you me, the GMB nurses don't want to go on strike
00:54but the GMB nurses have voted 100% to take action
00:57because they feel that there's been broken promises.
01:00They've got no faith left. They've worked on this in good faith
01:03that they would be paid accordingly for the work that they're doing
01:06and unfortunately that's broken down and where we are now.
01:10Hopefully after today they won't need to take any action.
01:13And if they have to take action?
01:15That will be discussed when we have the mandate for industrial action
01:18but potentially you're talking about strike action.
01:21And who's it likely to affect?
01:22It will affect your patients that aren't in the hospital, the patients that are being cared for at home.
01:28These nurses prevent people from being in the hospital.
01:32They look after folk with exceptional circumstances, extreme conditions
01:37that is keeping beds in the hospital free for people to come in and out.
01:42So that's what it will affect. It will affect patients in home and their families.
01:45What's at the heart of this dispute?
01:47The recognition for the pay that they've done. Their job has changed significantly in years
01:52and the training and expertise that the district nurses now have
01:55goes above and beyond what they used to do.
01:58They're now doing some of the work that used to be GPs.
02:01They are doing the job that GPs used to do and that's got to be accepted and recognised.
02:06And accepting them doing the work, they're just not prepared to pay them for it.
02:09And if you had a message for those making the decisions, those in charge, what would it be?
02:14Do the right thing. Follow your processes and do the right thing by these nurses
02:18and give them the pay that they're entitled to.
02:21You let them do the work, please pay them.
02:24My name's Kayleigh Stainton. I'm a district charge nurse and I work from Pollock Health Centre.
02:29So we're here today at the NHS GGC headquarters.
02:33We're here with all of our unions and the district nurses in Glasgow and Greater Clyde.
02:39We've had an ongoing process with our job evaluations.
02:43We first approached our managers in 2021 and it was officially acknowledged
02:48that our job description had changed in 2022.
02:53It got then signed off in 2023.
02:57Since then it's just been sitting to be submitted and it's been excuse after excuse.
03:02Everybody's had enough now. False promises after false promises.
03:06We're getting told it's getting submitted and then a month later it wasn't submitted.
03:11Either whoever was submitting it's been off sick or who was to submit it's now retired.
03:16And now we're at the stage, we don't really know.
03:19We've not actually got a reason why it's not getting submitted at the moment.
03:22The unions believe it's deliberately getting blocked.
03:25If you had a message for those in charge, what would it be?
03:28Please show the district nurses now that you're appreciating what we do.
03:33Otherwise we're going to have to go and strike.
03:35We really don't want to go and strike.
03:37We love our job, we love our patients.
03:39And all we're asking now is for you to please follow your own policies and procedures.
03:45Where do we want to be?
03:47Where do we want to be?
03:48Where do we want to be?
03:49No!
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