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We were unsuccessful in cancelling the new contract

1. for Associate Specialists (AS), the new contract makes a variable difference. I was offered a small pay rise (and probably will accept), my colleagues offered extra work for the same money!!
2. for Staff Grades, their top salary in the new grade will be £25k less than AS. I am sorry we were not able to help, but we did try.
3. In addition, responses from AS and SG generally were poor. I could not locate much 'will' to pursue this action. If any of you would like to take this further, and try and form a new union, (a BMA for AS and SG) please let me know. This was one of my aims, but apart from support from a few key members, I was unsuccessful. I was not able to commit a lot of time...all of us are very busy at work, and I have been especially busy. But unless we act together and form a new body, we will be doomed in making progress.
4. I would especially like to thank Grant, Shah, Angela, Josephine, and Redrod and the many others that helped tremendously.

I would like to thank you all for your help. Without the Hospital Doctor magazine, and with no help (and negative actions) from the BMA, we had an impossible job.

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