If you work in a nursing recruitment agency or are currently signed up with a nurse agency because you are carers who are seeking care jobs then you should know that right now, Unison members are going on strike. Clinical support workers have demanded that they get backpay and they also believe that they are not being treated as fairly as they could be. The staff who work at the Wirral University Trust walked out after they finished a 72-hour strike.

This comes right after a revised offer from the trust was made. They received a one-off payment to the staff but the union happened to reject it. The main reason for this is because they felt as though it fell short of the demands for back pay.

The CSW are known as HCAs and this includes everyone, whether they are support workers or even nursing assistants. It was their aim to support patients as much as possible but at the end of the day, this has been very difficult. They felt as though they were not getting the support that they needed, when they needed it. On top of this, they were not getting the back pay that they should have done when completing their duties. This is why so many people have demanded that they start getting fair pay and that they do not end up getting overlooked for the hard work that they are putting in. Only time will tell what the future holds for the strike and there is no guarantee that the money is even going to come through but at the end of the day, if action is not taken now then people are never going to be able to get the help they need when working so many extra hours.