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A year ago this month, we opened a formal ballot for industrial action for members in NHS Scotland. Since then, we have successfully secured mandates for industrial action in all four UK nations, despite some of the most stringent anti-union legislation in the world. Is your data 'strike ready'? One of the toughest challenges to run a legally secure industrial action campaign, is the requirement for unions to disclose accurate membership figures to employers at several stages of a strike campaign. To put us on our best footing for any future action – and to ensure we provide collective union

The simple response of course is ‘because it isn’t enough’ but in reality the answer is far more complex and far more serious. There are of course the moral reasons. The 1.4 million people employed by the NHS have just been through the most difficult year of their working lives – and it isn’t over yet. They have saved many tens of thousands of lives and provided outstanding physical care and emotional succour to those whose lives they couldn’t save. They have needed to acquire novel knowledge and skills rapidly; have often been redeployed to new work areas several times; and have repeatedly

As people receive their July pay packets, I am acutely aware of the complexity of the deal now beginning to be implemented for the England NHS and I know there has also been some recent confusion about what people can expect to receive and when. As a result, I thought it would be helpful to summarise the overall deal but in particular to highlight some useful new resources that should assist. The most complicated part of the agreement has always been the reform element, as 1 million NHS staff move from the old to the new pay and banding system, with a three-year transition period between the

The CSP motto translates roughly as ‘pursue worthy aims’ and for me encapsulates perfectly what it means to be both a physiotherapist and a trade unionist. While working as a junior physiotherapist, I started out as a CSP steward 32 years ago and pursuing worthy aims was very much my goal. I wanted to help my patients, my colleagues and the NHS hospital in which I worked. NHS staff have kept the lights on during the toughest of times Fast forward to six months ago, when I joined other health trade unions to begin negotiating a new pay deal for NHS staff in England, that same feeling drove us