Trade Union

• Lloyds pharmacists pass first test on road to union recognition

  Fri 11th September 2020 PDA Union

  Pharmacists at LloydsPharmacy (Lloyds) have made significant progress towards trade union recognition as the government body that oversees the process has formally accepted their application. The process now moves forward to decide which pharmacists will be included in the bargaining unit. 

• PDA invite LloydsPharmacy to work together to resolve pharmacist concerns

  Mon 7th September 2020 PDA Union

  The PDA have written to LloydsPharmacy (Lloyds) inviting them to work with the union to resolve the concerns of pharmacists over the change programme being implemented by the company 

• PDA respond to public service pension scheme consultation

  Mon 7th September 2020 The PDA

  Members working in the NHS will be interested in a public consultation launched last month by Government. 

• PDA exploring all options for pharmacist as pharmacy business faces insolvency

  Fri 4th September 2020 The PDA

  The PDA are exploring all options to ensure a pharmacist facing losing their job receives their full entitlement to compensation and pay, including owed holiday pay, after a pharmacy which is heading for insolvency told them to claim from the government for any monies owed.  

• Boots prison pharmacists to be transferred to Sodexo

  Thu 27th August 2020 The PDA

  Pharmacists employed by Boots in several prisons are having their employment transferred to a subsidiary of the French multinational Sodexo that provides custodial and post-release services to the UK Ministry of Justice, including directly managing several prisons. 

• Lloyds pharmacists raise concerns about change proposals

  Thu 20th August 2020 The PDA

  The PDA has received multiple reports from members after asking for details from the large number of pharmacists who may need support with dealing with the company’s so-called “transformation and harmonisation programme”. 

• Changes to manager roles at Well Pharmacy

  Thu 13th August 2020 PDA Union

  Well pharmacy have announced a proposal to remove all the non-pharmacist manager positions from their network of 760 pharmacies. The company want all pharmacies to be managed by pharmacists. The PDA are advising members employed in Well pharmacies to contact them for support if they have concerns. 

• Your help needed to pass on an URGENT request for Lloyds pharmacists to pledge support for union recognition

  Mon 10th August 2020 PDA Union

  All pharmacists at LloydsPharmacy have the opportunity to pledge their support for the profession to secure an independent voice at work through a trade union recognition agreement. Although we can contact those who are already our members directly, we need the help of our 31,000 members to help us get this message to those Lloyds pharmacists who have not yet joined the PDA. 

• PDA provide guidance for pharmacists at Lloyds

  Mon 10th August 2020 PDA Union

  The PDA have produced some general guidance in response to the growing number of pharmacists asking them for assistance as a result of the LloydsPharmacy (Lloyds), so-called: “transformation and harmonisation programme”. 

• Benefits for Lloyds pharmacists from union recognition

  Fri 7th August 2020 PDA Union

  PDA Union representative Paul Flynn sends a message to professional colleagues at LloydsPharmacy about the real difference trade union recognition can bring to pharmacists. 

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