Striking health visitors in Wales are demanding the enforcement of government policy to ensure they receive fair pay.
 
General secretary of Unite, Sharon Graham, will be visiting striking health visitors tomorrow (19 May) to hear their concerns and call on the new Plaid Cymru first minister and health minister to resolve the dispute.
 
Media are invited for photo, video and interview opportunities
 
Where: Cwm Taf Health Board Head Quarters -Ynysmeurig House in Navigation Park, Abercynon, CF45 4SN
When:  09:30
 
Unite members at the Cwm Taf Health Board (CTMUHB) have been on strike since February demanding they are paid at the correct grade that recognises their qualifications and skills. The refusal by the health board to do so is currently seeing them lose out on up to £9000 per year.
 
The former Labour Welsh government had asked the health board to honour the job evaluation process and the previous health & social care Jermey Miles wrote to the health board urging an early resolution to the dispute.
 
However, CTMUHB is still refusing to do this. In opposition Plaid Cymru, had also been supportive of the health visitors campaign and called on the health board to pay the workers the correct pay.
 
Sharon Graham said: "It is a disgrace that experienced health visitors are being shortchanged by thousands of pounds a year and the new government needs to get this sorted."
 
Unite has also called upon the director of human resources at CTMUHB Hywel Daniel to resign over the way he has handled the dispute.
 
Unite regional officer Paul Seppman added: “The new health minister has their first real test. Unite has a clear message for Mabon ap Gwynfor - make the health board pay our members what they are owed.
 
"Our members do not want to be in this position but are resolute in their fight for fair pay. It is an absolute disgrace the way the health board has acted. There is no sense of urgency or responsibility to the families this affects. Hywel Daniel should resign.”
 
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For further information and to arrange interviews please contact David Carnell Senior Communications Adviser on 07718 666592 or at david.carnell@unitetheunion.org