AFTER 15 years in nursing and 14 months at the sharp end of the pandemic, Ciorstaidh Reichle says it’s time she and her colleagues had a better deal.
The Inverclyde woman is part of the organising team for NHS Workers for Fair Pay Scotland, which rejects the Scottish Government’s 4% pay deal and seeks a 15% uplift for all healthcare workers instead.
The group, which has 10,000 members on Facebook, counts involvement from all unions and argues that years of below-inflation raises have left some workers 20% worse-off than they were a decade ago.
Next Saturday they’ll march to Holyrood and NHS staff from every Scottish health board are expected to join.