A busy day on Sunday. Starting off with canvass in Canning Town South in the morning. We meet outside Morrisons. Our MP Lyn Brown, was there and gave a quick, no nonsense speech to activists about how important it is to get a good result on May 5…Read more…
Next week – let’s find our voice through the ballot box
Use the elections on 5 May to send a message to the Tories about partygate and the cost of living crisis
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Health debates turn to equalities
Domestic violence, sexual harassment and racism at work and disability equality were among the issues debated in a busy session of UNISON’s 2022 health conference
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‘This is genocide,’ Ukrainian union leader tells health conference
Service group executive statement says: ‘Sometimes you need to pick a side. Sometimes you need to do the right thing’
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UNISON must be ‘proactive’ in greening the NHS, delegates agree
Delegates discuss a trio of motions, with a sense of urgency at the scale of the problem facing the planet
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Health staff risk being driven out by unfair mileage rates and new parking charges, says UNISON
This is not a good time to be an NHS worker struggling on a budget.
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“Health members energised on the first day of Health Conference and inspired by Christina McAnea”
Hat tip James Anthony at https://www.in-unison.org/post/health-members-energised-on-the-first-day-of-health-conference-and-inspired-by-christina-mcanea
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Ten years ago on this blog – exposing today’s UNISON hypocrites
10 years ago to the day I blogged here about the failure of our trade union satisfactorily to assess the equality impact of proposed settlement of the public sector pension dispute which had led, five months before, to the largest strike action of my w…Read more…
The pandemic efforts of health staff are being undermined by political choices, says UNISON
Most worked extra hours and took on more intense workloads.
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Reading hospital security guards in pay win
The long-running dispute involving the security staff at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading has been settled, Unite the union said today (April 25). The 20 guards first started taking industrial…Read more…
Whirlpool faces strike ballot
The repair, installation and maintenance of the UK’s household appliances, such as washing machines, could be thrown ‘into a spin’ as staff employed by Whirlpool get ready to hold a strike ballot…Read more…
Rugby street cleaners and refuse workers to strike
Bin collections and street cleaning in Rugby will grind to a halt from Tuesday (April 26). Members of Unite are taking strike action to demand a significant pay increase as spiralling price rises…Read more…
NHS staff ‘undermined by political decisions’, says McAnea
General secretary tells health conference that deliberate Conservative choices have created the cost of living crisis
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Blog: Why it’s vital police staff have their say this week
UNISON has pushed to get the best possible pay offer for 2021 and 2022 – but we now need a high turnout in our consultative ballot
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Health delegates lay blame for NHS problems squarely on Tories
First in-person conference since 2019 opens with a raft of debates on health, wellbeing and safety in the service
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UNISON health conference opens in Liverpool
Chair of the the union’s health service group, Roz Norman, reminds delegates of successful track record of standing up for health members
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Other countries are helping families with energy costs: why can’t we?
Last month, the Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced a budget that failed to boost pay, raise benefits or help low-income households. In contrast, here is how other governments across Europe are choosing…Read more…
Ambulance pressures taking a significant toll on staff, says UNISON
Ambulance staff, like so many in the NHS, can’t just leave their stress at the door when they get home.
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Elwy Valley Walk
Off message but over Easter, Gill and I went back to North Wales to see my Mum for her 81st birthday (our Christmas visit has also been cancelled when we caught Covid) and visit other family members.
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Out and about for Labour in Little Ilford
I joined this afternoon a really great canvass session in Little Ilford, Newham. The reception on the doorstep was overwhelmingly positive. Residents do express their views on what they think is wrong and could be improved, which is why it is so …Read more…