Special Features

• PDA Union Statement: Boots’ management oppose early release of ballot papers

  Fri 25th January 2019 PDA Union

  Boots have previously indicated that they also want to see maximum voter participation so we have asked Boots to support an application to ensure ballot papers are issued as soon as possible, however in their response the company have said they will not, and are opposing early release of the voting papers.   

• Boots recognition: An 8-year Journey

  Thu 24th January 2019 PDA Union

  Boots Pharmacists’ legal battle to secure an independent voice at work in order to improve their working conditions will shortly reach its eighth anniversary. This means that it is likely that many of the pre-registration and newly qualified pharmacists now employed by the retailer had not finished secondary school when the action began. 

• Improving Equality at Boots

  Wed 23rd January 2019 PDA Union

  A key objective of the PDA Union is to tackle inequality at work and when we say that, we mean our constitution explicitly states that we exist to “promote equality for all and to eliminate all forms of harassment, prejudice and unfair discrimination…”  

• Boots Ballot: An international perspective

  Tue 22nd January 2019 PDA Union

  We know that the senior management at Boots UK have spent 8 years preventing you from having your trade union, the PDA Union, legally recognised but have you ever wondered how Walgreen Boots Alliance (WBA) relate to pharmacist trade unions in other countries? 

• Boots: How forced distribution can inhibit genuine performance management

  Mon 21st January 2019 PDA Union

  Pharmacists tell us the current pay and reward system in Boots is demoralising, unfair and opaque, and it must be changed. 

• Boots Pharmacists: Why recognise a trade union?

  Sun 20th January 2019 PDA Union

  Doctors have the BMA, Physiotherapists the CSP, Nurses the RCN, Midwives the RCM and so on across the sector. Since 2008, Pharmacists have had the PDA Union standing up for their rights too. 

• Should Boots be proud of their pay practice?

  Sat 19th January 2019 PDA Union

  A senior company director recently said that Boots are “proud of [its] market-leading levels of pay for [its] pharmacy population.” So we want to explain what that pay system involves. 

• Pharmacists call on Boots to allow maximum voting period in recognition ballot

  Fri 18th January 2019 PDA Union

  Pharmacists and pre-registration trainees are calling upon Boots to support an application by the PDA Union to request that ballot papers are posted out at the start of the ballot period, to help ensure as many pharmacists as possible can participate in the vote. 

• Lloyds Pharmacy’s parent company has acquired Prescribing Support Services

  Tue 15th January 2019 PDA Union

  If you are working for Prescribing Support Services you may be subject to organisational or employment changes. Please let us know if you have any issues or concerns. 

• Health Education England cuts funding for hospital trainee pharmacists (called pre-reg until end of summer 2021) in England

  Fri 11th January 2019 The PDA

  Health Education England has announced a decision to cut funding for hospital trainee pharmacists (called pre-reg until end of summer 2021) placements by up to 25% from 2020 onward.  

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