Delegates heard impassioned speeches on international women’s rights and the importance of resisting apartheid in Palestine
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Majority of homecare staff are unpaid for travel between visits
Employers must pay for time between visits to ensure fair wages
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UNISON National Delegate Conference 2023: Day 2 – Industrial Action Ballots: Composite D debate
Today I moved a composite motion on behalf of London and Eastern region, Private Contractors, North Northamptonshire LG & Newcastle Hospitals. The current NEC opposed the motion (despite previously supporting it) for in my view, pretty bizzare…Read more…
Care dominates debate at national delegate conference
What’s happening with adult social care in England and the devolved nations, provided a comprehensive debate on day two of national delegate conference
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Introducing cloud CRM platforms for unions
We asked unions last year about what they wanted in terms of shared activity around the CRM projects so many of us are going through. One of those things was more to demystify the market for platform CRM, and which products are out there. Many of us have been using particular membership database products for … Continue reading Introducing cloud CRM platforms for unions
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Public services can help create a kinder, fairer society, says UNISON
Christina McAnea tells conference of UNISON achievements
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‘We remain strong and defiant’
Christina McAnea salutes a year of successful striking and campaigning, in a rousing conference speech
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Conference urged to fight for truth and justice in COVID inquiry
Delegates heard from Professor Lyn Sudbury-Riley about her work with COVID Bereaved Families for Justice, as the pandemic public inquiry began
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UNISON National Delegate Conference 2023: Tuesday – Day one
This morning I went for a early morning run (aka slow jog) west of the Mersey then was in the Conference centre for the first day of National Delegate Conference, as one of the two London regional delegates with Yvonne Green.There was a bit of co…Read more…
NHS pay process needs fundamental reset, says UNISON
A more relevant, modern approach to setting pay in the NHS is long overdue.
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‘Unite doesn’t rest’ in pursuit of justice
Unite has secured a protective award worth in excess of £2.5 million at Employment Tribunal for over 700 former employees of the Yorkshire-based printing firm YM Group. The workers, who were employed at Pinder in Scarborough, YM Chantry in Wakefield and York Mailing in York, lost their jobs in March 2022 after the sites were […]
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Pay deal adds the fizz at Coca Cola
Supplies of the UK’s favourite soft drinks are safe this summer after Coca Cola finally agreed to share a greater proportion of its mammoth profits with workers at Europe’s biggest soft drinks plant. Crippling strikes were due to begin on Wednesday (June 13) but a breakthrough in negotiations means there’ll be no walk-outs this summer. […]
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Supporting lower paid women in UNISON
‘The strength and stability of our union relies on our ability to recruit, support and develop our women activists’
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‘Activists are the lifeblood of our union,’ says Andrea Egan
UNISON president opens the union’s 2023 national delegate conference
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This uncertain future requires new rights for workers to access training
With the world of work rapidly transforming, it is time for change. A new right to time off to train should be part of a wider package of measures to help workers as the economy and society undergo transformational change, including the move to net zer…Read more…
Food Standards Agency workers call for fair pay
Local government conference hears that UNISON needs to build recruitment in the agency
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Care workers take centre stage at local government conference
“Insourcing, insourcing, insourcing is the solution to market failure”, delegates hear
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‘Save local services before it’s too late’ says conference
UNISON research reveals the levels of underfunding in local government
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A message of solidarity from trade unionists in Turkey
Mehmet Bozgeyik, co-president of the confederation of public employees’ trade unions (KESK), gives passionate address to UNISON local government conference
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UNISON National Delegate Conference 2023: Monday
I arrived yesterday to attend the National briefing for all Regional delegates by the General Secretary. Afterwards I went for a meal with fellow delegates, most of whom were fellow Labour Link activists. This morning I went for my early morning run in…Read more…