UNISON has agreed the biggest ever equal pay award with North Cumbria Acute NHS Trust, for 1,500 women working at Cumberland Infirmary and at West Cumbria Hospital. The women each stand to gain between £35,000 and £200,000.
The union has waged an eight-year legal battle to gain equal pay and the offer will be recommended to members at a mass meeting to be organised shortly.
Equal value claims were lodged in August 1997 for 14 different working categories, using five different male comparators. The women range from nurses and healthcare assistants to catering assistants, domestics, clerical officers, sewing machine assistants, porters and telephonists. They compared their pay with that of craftsmen/joiners, building labourers/wall washers, works officers, craftsmen supervisors and maintenance assistants.
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