As service users as well as providers, UNISON members know the challenges faced by councils after a decade of Conservative cuts
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Blog: Let’s remember those who have died because of their work
On International Workers’ Memorial Day, let us all take a minute to remember how precious life is and the cost that many workers pay every year, around the globe
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Health conference takes on a packed final morning
Business ranges from support for migrant healthcare workers to ambulance uniforms
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Ministers must adopt Migration Advisory Committee recommendations to beef-up care staff numbers, says UNISON
Care employers are losing people in droves to warehouses, supermarkets and online retailers able to pay more for less stressful work
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High Court rules that government orders to discharge untested Covid patients into care homes was illegal, says UNISON
Covid spread like wildfire as untested but positive patients were discharged from hospitals.
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Staff with long Covid will feel forced out of the health service if managers don’t treat them fairly, warns UNISON
Workers with the condition are returning to work early because they’re afraid of losing their jobs
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Ambulance uniforms not fit for purpose and may put staff at risk, says UNISON
Ambulance employees work in all sorts of situations and weathers.
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Pay tops the agenda at health conference
Flexible working and a 35-hour work week were debated in Liverpool on Tuesday afternoon
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Delegates back a range of motions on mileage and other rates
NHS bank rates and on-call rates also debated as UNISON health conference hears that workers are being exploited
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UNISON demands school meals workers are brought in-house
‘By cutting profit out of school meals, there’s more money for nutritious meals and to level up the pay and benefits of workers’
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Have your say on how Social Work England regulates social workers
UNISON encourages social workers to complete a short survey to feed back on the government’s positions, before 6 May
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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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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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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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