{"id":786548,"date":"2026-09-29T16:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T16:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/786548\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T16:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T16:52:09","slug":"royal-berkshire-hospital-porters-overtime-row-sees-two-day-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/786548\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Berkshire Hospital porters overtime row sees two-day strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The parties worked with Acas in an attempt to resolve the issue last week but the offer was rejected by 98% of GMB members, the union said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Louis Bryson, GMB&#8217;s regional organiser, said: &#8220;Workers in our communities getting pushed towards poverty is a disgrace, especially such vital healthcare professionals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said senior hospital managers were &#8220;penny-pinching the overtime rates of the lowest paid staff&#8221; while recruiting more senior management.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The union said about 70 porters at the hospital are members.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dias added: &#8220;This is something we didn&#8217;t want [to do], We tried by all means not to come to this. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s an investment in the future hoping that it will get better&#8230; The loss today could be a win tomorrow. We chose the loss today.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The parties worked with Acas in an attempt to resolve the issue last week but the offer was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":786549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-786548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786548","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=786548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}