Britain’s best-known political comedian considers the state of the NHS in its 70th year – and ponders its future
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Britain’s best-known political comedian considers the state of the NHS in its 70th year – and ponders its future
The article Mark Thomas gives the NHS a comedy check-up first appeared on the UNISON…Read more…
The 2% pay rise in England and Wales will be backdated to 1 September 2018
The article Police staff members agree pay offer first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
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Nearly 6,000 car industry jobs have been lost since 2016 according to new figures revealing the challenges now facing the UK automotive sector, which has seen another year of declining sales. …Read more…
Commenting today (Monday) on the government’s 10-year plan for the NHS in England, UNISON head of health Sara Gorton said: “Finding the NHS more staff, and holding on to those it already has, is key…Read more…
Commenting today (Sunday) ahead of tomorrow’s publication of the government’s 10-year plan for the NHS, UNISON head of health Sara Gorton said: “Encouraging people to take better care of themselves…Read more…
As the longest pay squeeze for two centuries continues, households are increasingly relying on borrowing to keep afloat.Read more…
Completely agree. Tenants have no collective voice, little power and very mixed protection. While the public sector is not at all perfect the private sector needs complete fundamental reform. “Sweeping new powers must be given to social tena…Read more…
The Labor Party looks set to receive fewer seats in the Knesset than at any other time in its history. There is even the possibility, albeit a slim one, that it will disappear entirely by…Read more…
Torn from home is the theme for Holocaust Memorial Day 2019. This theme helps us to reflect on how the loss of a safe place to call “home” is part of the trauma faced by anyone experiencing persecution and genocide.On this page:Holocaust Memorial Day…Read more…
“Today’s #FatCatFriday – when the typical FTSE100 CEO has already earned the average wage for a whole year.
While greedy execs sit on piles of cash, thousands of families struggle to make ends meet due to rising insecure work and draconian condit…Read more…
Codename Villanelle was one of the most fun books I read in 2017. I was disappointed by the hit BBC series “Killing Eve” which was based on it, and was reluctant to give this book…Read more…
Print workers at Suffolk firm, CPI William Clowes, who have been given just two pay rises in the last 14 years, will take a third day of strike action on Thursday, January 17. The workers at…Read more…
Unite said it would be offering its members maximum support and pursing legal action for compensation over a failure to consult after Monarch Aircraft Engineering Limited (MAEL) collapsed into…Read more…
For most of us, it takes an entire year to earn enough to pay our bills, feed ourselves and keep a roof over heads– and even then, for those in insecure, minimum wage jobs, full-time work does not…Read more…
One of the books I’ve read over the holiday period is Gigged by Sarah Kessler. It’s a quick read, nicely written and manages to get across some important points.
First up, if you’re reading the book from labour-oriented perspective you may find the st…Read more…
The TUC strongly condemns the arrests of the striking steel workers and calls for their immediate and unconditional releaseRead more…
“A ROUGH sleeper found dead in Malvern on Christmas Day…”
“At least 440 homeless people died in UK in past year, study shows”
“Homeless deaths rise by a quarter in five years, official figures show”Read more…
A New Year campaign has been launched by Unite to stop the pathology services in Kent being outsourced to a ‘profit hungry’ private company. Unite, which has 100,000 members in the health…Read more…
Intransigent bus bosses are being blamed for the impending week-long strike on Sunday (January 6) by 650 bus drivers in the north east in a pay dispute, which will cause ‘severe disruption’ for…Read more…