Remi Tayo, a UNISON member, joined MPs and colleagues from NEU and NAHT to hand in a petition to the Chancellor demanding fair funding
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Remi Tayo, a UNISON member, joined MPs and colleagues from NEU and NAHT to hand in a petition to the Chancellor demanding fair funding
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Strike ballot to be launched for CQC workers
The article Staff ensuring health and care safety deserve fair pay first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Survey shows staff having to choose between supporting residents in final hours and needs of other residents
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Survey shows not enough staff to sit with residents in their final hours or change soiled sheets
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ILO convention says no one should be in fear of physical, physiological or sexual violence from just going about their daily work
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With the UK government making disastrous decisions for workers and services, UNISON will be running industrial action and consultative ballots in the coming weeks
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Government action to buy energy for consumers would limit pain
The article Bulb collapse shows public energy supplier needed first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Presentation caps a busy morning that saw delegates debate a wide range of topics, including the climate crisis
The article LGBT+ conference applauds organising award winners first appeared on the…Read more…
Taiwo Owatemi MP – a UNISON member – addressed UNISON’s LGBT+ conference and thanked members for their work in the pandemic
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Meeting on Transgender Day of Remembrance, LGBT+ conference backs a raft of motions to fight back against ‘an attack on all of us’
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Christina McAnea took to the rostrum at UNION’s LGBT+ conference in Brighton this morning, to deliver a message of hope, of pride and of gratitude, mixed with anger at the antics of the Tory…Read more…
UNISON has signed up to the charter after forcing the Department for Education to acknowledge role of all school staff
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Rocketing inflation leaves staff struggling and harms recruitment
The article Public service workers are falling way behind spiralling living costs first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
But we shouldn’t be under any illusion – by itself the Living Wage does not offer a long-term solution to a UK labour market characterised by low pay, persistent gender and ethnicity pay gaps, and…Read more…
Proper recruitment drive also needed
The article Above-inflation pay rise is key to nurse numbers first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
World leaders are not yet ‘sufficiently prepared’ to take the necessary decisions to cut emissions, says UNISON’s COP26 delegate Stephen Smellie
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For Trans Awareness Week this year, let’s meet some UNISON members and find out what makes them proud of their union
The article Our trans members, proud to be in – and out in – UNISON first…Read more…
UNISON supports an amendment that would create specific exemptions for trade union activities to avoid clampdown on picketing and strike action
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There are real fears that staff and services will be unable to cope as demand inevitably increases.
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Jackie Hamer has worked for the Environment Agency for 30 years. Here, she shares her perspectives on how climate change will affect the UK
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