PDA Union

• Find out what it is like to be a PDA Regional Committee Member

  Thu 14th January 2021 The PDA

  With the Regional Committee Elections opening for nominations earlier this week, Muhammad Siddiqur Rahman and Nav Bhogal, PDA Regional Committee Members in the South East region, have co-written our latest Member Voice article to share their experience of being part of the committee.  

• Joint statement – Boots & the PDA Union (30 December 2020)

  Tue 29th December 2020 PDA Union

  The PDA Union and Boots have released their latest joint statement following further talks on the 2020 pay review which were facilitated by the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS)  

• PDA Union and LloydsPharmacy issue joint statement on recognition talks

  Wed 23rd December 2020 PDA Union

  PDA Union negotiators representing pharmacists at Lloyds Pharmacy have progressed talks with company representatives and the two sides have issued their first joint statement. 

• PDA Union announces recognition agreement covering pharmacists in Northern Ireland working for GP Federations

  Fri 18th December 2020 The PDA

  This is the latest recognition agreement for the PDA Union which began negotiating terms for pharmacists via their groundbreaking agreement with Boots which was signed in 2019. 

• PDA supports citizen group petition to save community pharmacies from closure

  Tue 15th December 2020 The PDA

  The PDA have added their support to a petition organised by Grassroots campaigning organisation, 38 Degrees, that calls on the Westminster government to recompense pharmacies for the extra costs they have incurred by staying open to provide health services during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

• Pay negotiations for former Boots pharmacists shows continuing benefit of PDA Union recognition

  Thu 3rd December 2020 PDA Union

  The PDA Union continues to negotiate pay for members and has secured above-inflation increases for members whose employment with Boots transferred under TUPE to new employers in the NHS and Prison Service. 

• Another success for pharmacists at Lloydspharmacy as trade union bargaining unit decided

  Fri 20th November 2020 PDA Union

  Pharmacists at Lloyds have moved another step closer to securing an independent voice at work through their trade union, the PDAU. The Central Arbitration Committee (CAC) have decided which pharmacists will be in scope of union recognition; accepting in full the PDA proposal and rejecting entirely the company’s alternative. 

• PDA inspire new ophthalmic trade union

  Thu 19th November 2020 The PDA

  A group of optometrists have been inspired to create a trade union for their profession after learning about the work PDA do for pharmacists. The Prospect - Optometrist and Dispensing Optician Trade Union branch (POTU) is now founded and PDA wish them well as a colleague trade union. 

• PDA Union Statement on day salaries should have increased at Boots

  Sun 1st November 2020 The PDA

  PDA Members employed by Boots will be aware that today (1st November) is the date on which they would normally expect to see an uplift in their salaries. 

• Trade unions want to do even more for the self employed

  Fri 16th October 2020 PDA Union

  PDA Director, Paul Day, featured on an expert panel at a Unions21 webinar discussing how trade unions can better support self-employed members. 

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As a member for eight years would I recommend the PDA? Absolutely! When a potentially serious issue was raised against me, they supported & advised me over 2 years & 4 months to resolve it successfully without any financial, legal or registration costs to me