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Needle Picket 💉

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Bluesky account highlighting the current Strike Action at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Underpaid Phlebotomists Unite 💪🏻

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Strike Map @strikemap.org · 25/11/2025
BREAKING 🚨| We've just sent the first £400 from our I GIVE A PHLEB pin badges, in support of striking @unison.org.uk Gloucester Phlebotomists. £1 a badge, every penny to the strike fund. 🎯Target is 1,000. 236 days of strike action, get yours here: bit.ly/IGIVEAPHLEBb...
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Needle Picket 💉 @marlenecooke.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Join me at Solidarity Rally with Gloucestershire Phlebotomists www.megaphone.org.uk/events/solid...
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Solidarity Rally with Gloucestershire Phlebotomists
We’re the phlebotomists who take blood from patients at Gloucester and Cheltenham hospitals. We’re on the longest running strike in NHS history fighting for fair pay and respect. We’ve been ignored, u...
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Needle Picket 💉 @marlenecooke.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Yesterday, on Strike Day 222, we had some lovely visitors to the picket line 😊 Everyone is always welcome! Longest #Strike in the NHS to date. Isn't that sad?
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Strike Map @strikemap.org · 16/10/2025
Longest strike in NHS history 🪧 We back the incredible Gloucester Phlebotomists, who’ve taken over 2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ days of action. Back the @unisonsw.bsky.social strikers & sign this petition started by a local resident: megaphone.org.uk/petitions/say-no-to-bullying-of-nhs-staff #StrikeMap
Text reads: longest strike in NHS history. Picture of striking Gloucester Phlebotomists. Text reads visits a picket at strikemap.org. Strike map logo.
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Needle Picket 💉 @marlenecooke.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Today is Strike Day nr 128. This article will help you understand what we're up against at Gloucestershire Hospitals Trust. Please share 🌷🫶🏻 #StrikeAction #Union #NHS www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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NHS spent '£100k' in legal battle after ex-boss subjected to 'brutal bullying' - BBC News
The judge described health chiefs' actions as "misguided, brutal and bullying".
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Needle Picket 💉 @marlenecooke.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Taking strike action for a prolonged period of time is financially taxing. If you want to show your support, click the link below and make a donation to our strike fund 🫶🏻 southwest.unison.org.uk/campaigns/fa...
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Fair pay for phlebotomists - UNISON South West
For years, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been paying phlebotomists Band 2 wages for Band 3 work.
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Needle Picket 💉 @marlenecooke.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
A valuable lesson from the picket line: If workers are out on the streets, demanding x, y, z - you can be sure that there's a very VALID reason. The Phlebotomists of Gloucestershire Hospitals had their 127th day of strike action today. We don't do this for a laugh.
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Needle Picket 💉 @marlenecooke.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
127 days of Strike Action today by the Phlebotomists of @gloshospitals.bsky.social
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Needle Picket 💉 @marlenecooke.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
So proud to be part of this excellent coagulation (group of Phlebotomists). magazine.unison.org.uk/2025/07/30/w...
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We won’t strike in vein - Magazine
On 4 July, Phlebotomists in Gloucester passed 100 days on the picket line
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Needle Picket 💉 @marlenecooke.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
We stand with Mark Hemphill, the man that single-handedly exposed the true face of our CEO Kevin McNamara. Today is day 126 of the Phlebotomists Strike at Gloucestershire Hospitals. #United #NHS #StrikeAction #Gloucester #Cheltenham www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Ex-NHS manager in Swindon awarded £24,000 for unfair dismissal - BBC News
Mark Hemphill had been struggling with responsibilities that were not outlined in his contract.
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Needle Picket 💉 @marlenecooke.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
It's official! Kevin McNamara is a bully. Lets highlight this now! The striking phlebotomists won't give up 💪🏻 @unison.org.uk @unisonsw.bsky.social #stopbullying www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/glouces...
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NHS worker 'who stood up to bullies' is 'delighted' with latest tribunal victory
'I was always taught to stand up to bullies and feel proud I stayed the course and won, perhaps in some way, on behalf of other NHS staff less capable of standing up to this kind of behaviour'
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UNISON South West @unisonsw.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
UNISON's head of health Helga Pile joined Phlebotomists on the picket line in Gloucestershire today ✊🏼 Today is their 48th day of strike action, with the Trust still refusing to follow NHS rules and properly evaluate their pay and banding.
Helga Pile speaking to Phlebotomists on the picket line. An ambulance can be seen in the background turning into Gloucestershire Royal Hospital.
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Needle Picket 💉 @marlenecooke.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Gloucestershire Hospitals Phlebotomists Industrial Action Update Total Weeks of Industrial Action: 11 Meetings with Senior Management : 1 Result : 0 #FairPay #Gloucester #Cheltenham #NHS
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Needle Picket 💉 @marlenecooke.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Make this make sense ... Phlebotomists are non-medical staff!? Pardon? This comes from a link shared to the public regarding our current #Strike Action at Gloucestershire Hospitals.
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Needle Picket 💉 @marlenecooke.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
I'm gonna need both! 👀 So many precious things going on @thesparkdotcompany.bsky.social
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Needle Picket 💉 @marlenecooke.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
This would go well with our "phlebotomists"-burgundy uniform trousers! #NHS #IndustrialAction
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Needle Picket 💉 @marlenecooke.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
"We are treated like we don't exist - we want recognition. Nobody goes into this job for the money, but we have to pay the bills and we can't do that now." 📢 Pay us what we're worth, or we won't go to work! #strike
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Needle Picket 💉 @marlenecooke.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Apparently our CEO isn't too fond of our flyers 🤔 Take a look at it, will you?
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Needle Picket 💉 @marlenecooke.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Could YOU live on £12.07 per hour? We are the lowest paid workers in our Trust at this time, yet this is what other Trusts are paying their Phlebotomists. #Band2 should be abolished! #Unfair pay has no place in the NHS!
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Needle Picket 💉 @marlenecooke.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Other highlights from the picket line; our dear colleague surprised us all with home-made Biryani 🫶🏻 Sadly have no pictures as it was immediately devoured 🙃 #phlebotomy #strike
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Needle Picket 💉 @marlenecooke.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Day 17 of Strike Action : We got word from our @unisonsw.bsky.social Rep that a Gloucester District Unite branch has donated a whopping £3000 to support our #strike 🥳 #IndustrialAction @gloshospitals.bsky.social
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The BMA @bma.org.uk · 09/04/2025
🚨 BREAKING: Resident doctors in England have re-entered a pay dispute with the Government. Why? Because progress is being stonewalled by the continued delay in the publication of the DDRB's pay recommendations. Trust must be rebuilt. Publish the DDRB now bma.org.uk/residentspay
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Needle Picket 💉 @marlenecooke.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Day 16 of Strike Action : A lovely colleague from ENT brought snacks to our picket line @gloshospitals.bsky.social! 🫶🏻 We certainly feel the love. #Phlebotomy #Rebanding
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UNISON South West @unisonsw.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Hello Cheltenham, this is Liverpool calling 📞 UNISON national health conference went live to the Gloucestershire phlebotomists on the picket line taking their 14th day of action. Take a look at the moment it happened: youtu.be/v4irblBbA9Y
Phlebotomists on the picket line outside Cheltenham hospital on a bright sunny day.
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Needle Picket 💉 @marlenecooke.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
I need ideas for fun activities we can do in the picket lines together! Next week we're looking at bad weather, so we need to keep morale up!!! Any ideas guys? 🤔 #Phlebotomist #StrikeAction
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Needle Picket 💉 @marlenecooke.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
So lucky that we were able to show everyone at the conference how dedicated we are in our call for change 💪🏻 This was fun!
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Needle Picket 💉 @marlenecooke.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Concluding our 2. week of Industrial Action and we still haven't heard from/seen the shadow of Kevin McNamara.
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Needle Picket 💉 @marlenecooke.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Strike Action! It's been a long time coming ... www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/glouces... #phlebotomy #NHS
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Hospital staff 'supporting overstretched GPs' to strike
Specialist healthcare workers are set to walk out for 72 hours over 'unfair pay and grading,' says Unison
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Needle Picket 💉 @marlenecooke.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
That other place was becoming rather cursed. Let's never speak of it again.
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