Nurse ‘with different skin colour’ chased into hospital by masked men, union sayspublished at 08:21 BST<\/p>\n
08:21 BST<\/p>\n
Trade union Unison says it has been helping “terrified” health workers
\nfrom overseas after receiving reports of them being followed to and from work, being intimidated from their homes or becoming afraid to leave their homes.<\/p>\n
Patricia McKeown, regional secretary with Unison, tells Good Morning Ulster that when the “horrific” incident happened in north Belfast on Monday night, they saw “the call to arms on social media we knew immediately our members from
\noverseas were going to be under threat”. <\/p>\n
“We went to the mode we normally go into the try protect
\npeople. Negotiated with employers, we talked about the need for protection to
\nand from work and for alternative shift arrangements and, indeed, for
\naccommodation where necessary,” McKeown says. <\/p>\n
She says that yesterday evening, a nurse with “a different skin colour was chased into the Ulster Hospital by four masked men”. <\/p>\n
Despite experiencing the trauma of that incident, McKeown says, the nurse “insisted on doing her shift”. <\/p>\n
“There is no excuse for any of this. This is racism, pure and
\nsimple.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nurse ‘with different skin colour’ chased into hospital by masked men, union sayspublished at 08:21 BST 08:21 BST…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-632694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}