‘When the clapping dies down, UNISON will still be fighting for care workers to be properly treated: paid living wages, with proper job security and career structures.’
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Coronavirus: online learning update
New resources available for health and safety reps and care workers at our dedicated learning.unison.org.uk site
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Frontline staff need real protection
UNISON says ‘desperate measures’ in leaked plans could lead to preventable deaths
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‘I am not going to stop working’: on the care frontline during COVID-19
‘Everybody is worried about the virus. Carers are worried for themselves, and worried for our clients too’
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Social care record condemned
Seminar hears that government has been in office for almost 10 years, yet has not even produced a green paper on social care
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Four Seasons sale failure shows why ministers must act on social care, says UNISON
Vulnerable people and care workforce should not face uncertainty
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Fragmented and fragile: it’s time to fix social care
New report argues that care workers are overlooked, undervalued and in desperate need of investment
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AFG taking a big cut from funding it receives
UNISON releases figures as workers take a third day of action in fight against company cutting pay
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We felt the love in February
February is the month of romance, what with Valentine’s Day and Heart UNISON week – and UNISON members were definitely feeling the love during the last 28 days.
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Care workers vote to strike over threat to sleep-in payments
UNISON members could lose £2,000 a year under plan by private company
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North west council becomes latest to sign up to ethical care
A big change for homecare workers in Knowsley
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It’s time to value our carers
Birmingham carers are on strike because the council thinks they’re an easy target for cuts
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August: it was no holiday
There was no lying on sun-loungers for UNISON or many of our members involved in key struggles at work
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Prentis tells Birmingham care strikers ‘we will win’
Birmingham council wants to cut the hours – and pay – of its enablement team that works to help vulnerable people stay in their homes
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Getting hot, hot, hot – July at UNISON
Whilst UNISON enjoyed the sun and the World Cup as much as the next union, we also didn’t let them stop us working as hard as ever on behalf of our members. Here are just some of our highlights from…Read more…
Plans to cut care workers’ pay on hold
Strike action on hold pending further talks
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When I went to Parliament and spoke up for care workers
UNISON member and care worker Nicole Stanfield Caile went to Parliament recently to put the case for care workers
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UNISON vows to highlight crucial value of social care
New report published in run-up to government green paper
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Care workers strike against pay cuts
Some 120 UNISON members in Bath and north east Somerset take action over employers’ ‘work-for-free’ proposals
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Adult social care has no funding, no strategy and no long-term solutions, says UNISON
UNISON responds to the Public Accounts Committee report
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