{"id":33595,"date":"2021-03-11T14:07:56","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T14:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shefnews.co.uk\/?p=33595"},"modified":"2021-03-11T14:07:56","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T14:07:56","slug":"tonights-slow-clap-in-support-of-nhs-workers-payrise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/03\/11\/tonights-slow-clap-in-support-of-nhs-workers-payrise\/","title":{"rendered":"Tonight&#8217;s &#8216;Slow Clap&#8217; in support of NHS workers&#8217; payrise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chancellor Rishi Sunak is provoking a furious reaction across the UK since announcing proposals to increase nurses&#8217; pay by 1% in his budget speech last week.<\/p>\n<p>The unpopular pay rise has inspired the trade union Unison to instigate a sarcastic &#8216;slow clap&#8217; at 8pm this evening.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight\u2019s clap will be the first of two in protest for a higher wage increase, with the next &#8216;slow clap&#8217; to be on 1 April.<\/p>\n<p>Unison wants to pressure the government to provide a \u00a32,000 pay rise for nurses per annum, who currently earn \u00a333,000 a year.<\/p>\n<p>Wendy Emmett, Chair of a group called \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Unite-Community-South-Yorkshire-Branch-105317024954353\/\">Unite Community South Yorkshire<\/a>\u2019, who are showing solidarity to NHS workers, said: \u201cIt&#8217;s disgraceful, I am really horrified about it, but more so as I just know the government won\u2019t take any action at all.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter inflation, this 1% rise will be a pay reduction, and for all the hard work we\u2019ve done on the front line during the pandemic, it\u2019s disgraceful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ms Emmett has previously campaigned to support NHS workers&#8217; rights, and she was she hopes people will come out in numbers just as they did during the \u2018clap for carers&#8217; movement during the first lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>According to ONS, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nursingtimes.net\/news\/coronavirus\/covid-19-new-nurse-death-figures-prompt-call-for-investigation-25-01-2021\/\">over 150 nurses lost their lives<\/a> to COVID-19 in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Although the \u2018slow clap\u2019 is sarcastically directed at Rishi Sunak, Unison said it&#8217;s another opportunity for the public to show support to front-line staff.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>A joint report from Bruno Brown and William Holmes.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chancellor Rishi Sunak is provoking a furious reaction across the UK since announcing proposals to increase nurses&#8217; pay by 1% in his budget speech last week. The unpopular pay rise has inspired the trade union Unison to instigate a sarcastic &#8216;slow clap&#8217; at 8pm this evening. Tonight\u2019s clap will be the first of two in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":33603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,21,50,16,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-news","category-politics","category-top-stories","category-top-story-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tonight&#039;s &#039;Slow Clap&#039; in support of NHS workers&#039; payrise - ShefNews<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Chancellor Rishi Sunak is provoking a furious reaction across the UK since increasing nurses&#039; pay by 1% in his budget speech last week.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/03\/11\/tonights-slow-clap-in-support-of-nhs-workers-payrise\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tonight&#039;s &#039;Slow Clap&#039; in support of NHS workers&#039; payrise - ShefNews\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Chancellor Rishi Sunak is provoking a furious reaction across the UK since increasing nurses&#039; pay by 1% in his budget speech last week.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/03\/11\/tonights-slow-clap-in-support-of-nhs-workers-payrise\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"ShefNews\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-03-11T14:07:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"egc17bb\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"egc17bb\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/03\/11\/tonights-slow-clap-in-support-of-nhs-workers-payrise\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/03\/11\/tonights-slow-clap-in-support-of-nhs-workers-payrise\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"egc17bb\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/#\/schema\/person\/8d896e8680e3f0087ccf842062c6e9b0\"},\"headline\":\"Tonight&#8217;s &#8216;Slow Clap&#8217; in support of NHS workers&#8217; payrise\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-03-11T14:07:56+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/03\/11\/tonights-slow-clap-in-support-of-nhs-workers-payrise\/\"},\"wordCount\":253,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/03\/11\/tonights-slow-clap-in-support-of-nhs-workers-payrise\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"\",\"articleSection\":[\"Health\",\"News\",\"Politics\",\"Top stories\",\"Top Story 2 - Home Page sub 1\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/03\/11\/tonights-slow-clap-in-support-of-nhs-workers-payrise\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/03\/11\/tonights-slow-clap-in-support-of-nhs-workers-payrise\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/03\/11\/tonights-slow-clap-in-support-of-nhs-workers-payrise\/\",\"name\":\"Tonight's 'Slow Clap' in support of NHS workers' payrise - ShefNews\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/03\/11\/tonights-slow-clap-in-support-of-nhs-workers-payrise\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/03\/11\/tonights-slow-clap-in-support-of-nhs-workers-payrise\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-03-11T14:07:56+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/#\/schema\/person\/8d896e8680e3f0087ccf842062c6e9b0\"},\"description\":\"Chancellor Rishi Sunak is provoking a furious reaction across the UK since increasing nurses' pay by 1% in his budget speech last week.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/03\/11\/tonights-slow-clap-in-support-of-nhs-workers-payrise\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/03\/11\/tonights-slow-clap-in-support-of-nhs-workers-payrise\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/03\/11\/tonights-slow-clap-in-support-of-nhs-workers-payrise\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"\",\"contentUrl\":\"\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/03\/11\/tonights-slow-clap-in-support-of-nhs-workers-payrise\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Tonight&#8217;s &#8216;Slow Clap&#8217; in support of NHS workers&#8217; payrise\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/\",\"name\":\"ShefNews\",\"description\":\"Bringing you all the news from across Sheffield\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/#\/schema\/person\/8d896e8680e3f0087ccf842062c6e9b0\",\"name\":\"egc17bb\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"egc17bb\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/author\/egc17bb\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Tonight's 'Slow Clap' in support of NHS workers' payrise - ShefNews","description":"Chancellor Rishi Sunak is provoking a furious reaction across the UK since increasing nurses' pay by 1% in his budget speech last week.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/03\/11\/tonights-slow-clap-in-support-of-nhs-workers-payrise\/","og_locale":"en_GB","og_type":"article","og_title":"Tonight's 'Slow Clap' in support of NHS workers' payrise - ShefNews","og_description":"Chancellor Rishi Sunak is provoking a furious reaction across the UK since increasing nurses' pay by 1% in his budget speech last week.","og_url":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/03\/11\/tonights-slow-clap-in-support-of-nhs-workers-payrise\/","og_site_name":"ShefNews","article_published_time":"2021-03-11T14:07:56+00:00","author":"egc17bb","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"egc17bb","Estimated reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/03\/11\/tonights-slow-clap-in-support-of-nhs-workers-payrise\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/03\/11\/tonights-slow-clap-in-support-of-nhs-workers-payrise\/"},"author":{"name":"egc17bb","@id":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/#\/schema\/person\/8d896e8680e3f0087ccf842062c6e9b0"},"headline":"Tonight&#8217;s &#8216;Slow Clap&#8217; in support of NHS workers&#8217; payrise","datePublished":"2021-03-11T14:07:56+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/03\/11\/tonights-slow-clap-in-support-of-nhs-workers-payrise\/"},"wordCount":253,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/03\/11\/tonights-slow-clap-in-support-of-nhs-workers-payrise\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"","articleSection":["Health","News","Politics","Top stories","Top Story 2 - Home Page sub 1"],"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/03\/11\/tonights-slow-clap-in-support-of-nhs-workers-payrise\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/03\/11\/tonights-slow-clap-in-support-of-nhs-workers-payrise\/","url":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/03\/11\/tonights-slow-clap-in-support-of-nhs-workers-payrise\/","name":"Tonight's 'Slow Clap' in support of NHS workers' payrise - ShefNews","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/03\/11\/tonights-slow-clap-in-support-of-nhs-workers-payrise\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/03\/11\/tonights-slow-clap-in-support-of-nhs-workers-payrise\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"","datePublished":"2021-03-11T14:07:56+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/#\/schema\/person\/8d896e8680e3f0087ccf842062c6e9b0"},"description":"Chancellor Rishi Sunak is provoking a furious reaction across the UK since increasing nurses' pay by 1% in his budget speech last week.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/03\/11\/tonights-slow-clap-in-support-of-nhs-workers-payrise\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/03\/11\/tonights-slow-clap-in-support-of-nhs-workers-payrise\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/03\/11\/tonights-slow-clap-in-support-of-nhs-workers-payrise\/#primaryimage","url":"","contentUrl":""},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/03\/11\/tonights-slow-clap-in-support-of-nhs-workers-payrise\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Tonight&#8217;s &#8216;Slow Clap&#8217; in support of NHS workers&#8217; payrise"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/#website","url":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/","name":"ShefNews","description":"Bringing you all the news from across Sheffield","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/#\/schema\/person\/8d896e8680e3f0087ccf842062c6e9b0","name":"egc17bb","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"egc17bb"},"url":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/author\/egc17bb\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}