“Health and safety is important not just for workers, but for everyone in society”
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Unsocial hours payments: our position is clear
Government warned: ‘if you come for them, we will take industrial action’
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UNISON lobbying sees ministers move on facility time
Ministers have backed away from an outright ban on facility time across the UK’s public services
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‘We will support the junior doctors in this fight: and we will win’
Health delegates and Dave Prentis join junior doctors’ picket line and rally in Brighton
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‘The core of our NHS? Compassion’
Professor Michael West tells UNISON health conference that compassion and the one-team approach are key
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NEC by-election result
Edwin Jeffries has been elected unopposed to the Northern region male seat on the NEC
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“The NHS saved my life,” Dave Prentis tells conference
General secretary uses health conference to deliver personal message of thanks to NHS
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£35k migrant worker minimum salary doesn’t add up for NHS workers
NHS staffing crisis worsened by government migrant rules
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Give operational staff access to training
Conference demands training for undervalued ancillary, admin and clerical workers
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‘Community policing is worth protecting and worth voting for’
UNISON releases latest survey showing effect of policing cuts on community support officers and neighbourhood policing in England and Wales
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Pride in our union and our NHS
General secretary, shadow health secretary and service group chair unite to sing praises of NHS and its workers
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‘Don’t government claims to be protecting NHS make you sick?’
Not one person in the NHS believes £22bn cuts by 2020 are achievable, delegates hear as UNISON health conference gets under way in Brighton
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Middlesex University branch wins living wage commitment
Outsourced cleaners ‘so happy’ as six-month campaign pays off with promise of pay rise
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Government withdraws plan to stop check-off for subs payment
‘Now at least UNISON can concentrate on campaigning to protect public sector employees at work and the services they deliver’
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Use your vote on 5 May
Jobs and public services – the most important issues at the elections on 5 May
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UNISON congratulates Merthyr Tydfil council’s wage rise decision
Labour council raises pay for lowest-paid staff to £8.39 per hour
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UNISON members join People’s Assembly march in London
Student nurses take their fight to save the NHS bursary back onto the capital’s streets
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Local government executive to explore help for school support staff
Government plans to force all schools to become academies are just one issue facing support staff
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Wakefield invited to join commission on women and local government
Head of local government will ask women across the union to contribute ideas on what should be discussed
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UNISON Cymru/Wales celebrates mental health champions
New training will help further pioneering work on mental health in the workplace
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