Trade Unions

• Stand for election to your Regional Committee: Nominations open on Monday 11 January 2021

  Fri 8th January 2021 PDA Union

  The PDA Union is calling for nominations for skilled, experienced and enthusiastic members to join the Regional Committee. Please read on for further details... 

• 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. 

• 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. 

• High court legal victory strengthens health and safety rights for locum pharmacists

  Thu 19th November 2020 The PDA

  The PDA welcomes the High Court judgment secured by Independent Worker Union of Great Britain (IWGB), in support of its members, which extends health and safety rights to self-employed workers. 

• PDA say health & safety must be priority after Community pharmacists raise concerns over instructions to avoid test and trace rules

  Fri 23rd October 2020 The PDA

  The PDA Union is hearing from employed pharmacists at several multiples who have been instructed by their employers to turn off the NHS COVID-19 test and trace app when at work and worryingly some pharmacists are being told to refuse to ‘self-isolate’ if contacted by track and trace in respect of a colleague who has tested positive. This is also a significant concern for locum members who may be working in these multiples’ pharmacies. 

• Confusing message on union recognition issued by Lloyds does not address data breaches

  Fri 9th October 2020 PDA Union

  PDA members working at LloydsPharmacy have been in contact to report a confusing message they recently received from a senior company representative about recognition of the PDA.  The management message fails to address the issue of data breaches involving pharmacists' personal data 

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My experience of the PDA has been nothing but exemplary. Fantastic, hardworking people who seem to genuinely care about the pharmacists who are registered with them. If only more organisations were like them