Boots

• Boots update: where we are in the recognition process

  Thu 1st November 2018 PDA Union

  An update to pharmacists employed at Boots: "Following on from the activity earlier this year to derecognise the Boots Pharmacy Association (BPA), we are contacting you to update you on where we are in the recognition process."  

• Boots Pharmacists: Make sure you get a say in coming ballot

  Fri 26th October 2018 PDA Union

  Boots pharmacists and pre-registration pharmacists are actively encouraged to ensure their correct address details are registered on the company’s systems so that they will receive ballot papers to their home address without delay when a second vote on trade union recognition is held soon. 

• CAC agree bargaining unit for PDA Union Recognition

  Mon 1st October 2018 PDA Union

  Following a hearing on Friday 28th September, the CAC has today issued its decision on which pharmacists will be eligible to vote in a ballot to decide whether they can negotiate their pay, hours and holiday through the PDA Union. The PDA Union will only be able to negotiate for better employment terms for this group of employees should they win the ballot. 

• PDA Union and Boots update

  Mon 24th September 2018 PDA Union

  Read the latest update on the PDA Unions’ campaign to secure an independent voice at work for pharmacists at Boots.  

• PDA Union & Boots Update: ACAS talks end without agreement

  Tue 18th September 2018 PDA Union

  Two sets of talks facilitated by the government’s conciliation service, ACAS between high-street chemist Boots and the independent pharmacists’ trade union PDA Union have ended without agreement. Following a ballot of 7,000 pharmacists in June, in which 87% of voters favoured changes to the trade union arrangements for pharmacists at Boots, the PDA Union are now following a legal process to become the recognised independent voice of pharmacists at the company. 

• Independent voice at work another step closer for pharmacists at Boots

  Fri 17th August 2018 PDA Union

  The Central Arbitration Committee (CAC) have formally accepted the application by the PDA Union to be recognised by Boots. This is the latest development in a lengthy process to secure negotiations over pay, hours and working conditions on behalf of pharmacists. The legal process continues.  

• Boots Employees Vote For Macmillan To Receive A £3,308 Charity Donation

  Mon 13th August 2018 PDA Union

  After promising to give £1 to charity for each Boots pharmacist and pre-registration graduate who voted in the recent derecognition ballot, last week the PDA Union donated £3,308 to Macmillan Cancer support, which was selected by voters as their preferred charity to receive the donation. 

• Pharmacists at Boots take next step in recognition campaign after talks with company end without agreement

  Wed 25th July 2018 PDA Union

  Members of the PDA Union are taking the next step in their campaign to improve employee relations at Boots following a series of meetings with the company’s senior management, where a possible voluntary arrangement was discussed, but which ended without agreement.  

• Further “recognition” discussion between PDA Union and Boots’ senior management

  Fri 6th July 2018 PDA Union

  A team of PDA Union representatives held a second meeting with senior Boots managers on Thursday 5 July at a Boots’ store in Derby and discussions continued about the union’s formal request for recognition at the employer. 

• Talks begin between PDA Union and Boots’ senior management

  Tue 26th June 2018 PDA Union

  A team of PDA Union representatives attended a meeting with senior Boots managers on Friday 22 June, at Boots’ head office in Nottingham, as part of the process to establish how the company and union respond to the wishes of pharmacists expressed through the recent ballot. 

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