{"id":788390,"date":"2026-10-01T09:22:29","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T09:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/788390\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T09:22:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T09:22:29","slug":"almost-100-royal-berkshire-hospital-porters-to-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/788390\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost 100 Royal Berkshire Hospital porters to strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The GMB union members will down tools at 7am on Tuesday, September 29, until 7am on Thursday, October 1.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The dispute centres around a reduction in overtime rates for some of the lower paid workers in the hospital.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  An offer to temporarily bridge the gap of lost earnings for 6 months was rejected by 91 per cent of union members.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Last-ditch talks with the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS) last week produced a fresh offer, which was then rejected by 98 per cent of members.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Louis Bryson, GMB Regional Organiser said: \u201cWorkers in our communities getting pushed towards poverty is a disgrace, especially such vital healthcare professionals.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.readingchronicle.co.uk\/news\/26588192.reading-primary-school-praised-ofsted-inspection\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Reading primary school praised in Ofsted inspection<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cOur members have been forced to take action and for two days there will be no one to carry around heavy medical equipment, no one to take our loved ones to their surgeries and x-rays, and no porters to respond when patients crash.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cTrust Senior Management are penny-pinching the overtime rates of the lowest paid staff, while recruiting another associate director on a six-figure salary just this month.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cThere are now four executives within the Trust overseeing facilities on six-figure salaries.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cWe want members of our NHS community to be treated with respect and paid their dues, but since the Trust has refused, our members have no choice but to stand up for themselves.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The strike will be held at the North Entrance of Royal Berkshire Hospital in Craven Road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The GMB union members will down tools at 7am on Tuesday, September 29, until 7am on Thursday, October&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":788391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-788390","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\/788390","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=788390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}