‘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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‘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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Community conference sets out key policies in social care, housing, health and safety and much more
The article ‘We are in the business of protecting the most vulnerable people’ first appeared on…Read more…
UNISON regional organiser Tony Jones said the plans were in effect a 20% pay cut for members
The article Stoke-on-Trent council scraps care pay cuts first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Central Arbitration Committee says union’s bid for statutory recognition can go head at Scottish care charity
The article UNISON takes a step forward at Cornerstone first appeared on the UNISON…Read more…
‘The only people who will deliver for social care workers are this union,’ conference delegates hear
The article It’s time to end poverty wages and exploitative practices first appeared on the…Read more…
UNISON campaign sees council agree to keep one home open and pledge no compulsory redundancies
The article UNISON notches up a win in battle for care homes first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
City council becomes first to make union’s charter a key part of its commissioning process
The article Liverpool signs up to UNISON’s End Violence at Work charter first appeared on the UNISON…Read more…
This is completely unacceptable. Care workers should be able to focus on delivering compassionate care, and shouldn’t have to worry about losing pay or losing their jobs. Never mind pay cuts, they…Read more…
There was no lying on sun-loungers for UNISON or many of our members involved in key struggles at work
The article August: it was no holiday first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
‘We believe the Court of Appeal got this decision completely wrong and will do everything we can to reverse it’
The article UNISON seeks leave to appeal on sleep-in case first appeared on the UNISON…Read more…
Some 120 UNISON members in Bath and north east Somerset take action over employers’ ‘work-for-free’ proposals
The article Care workers strike against pay cuts first appeared on the UNISON National…Read more…
24 May 2018 Embargo: 00.01hrs Friday 25 May 2018 Charity’s excessive surveillance is harming care of the vulnerable, says UNISON National care charity – Community Integrated Care (CIC) – is…Read more…
Announcement comes as part of plans to bring social care and NHS services closer together
The article Manchester City Council moves to lift carers’ pay first appeared on the UNISON National…Read more…
Care workers owed up to six years’ back pay after being paid below the minimum wage will have to wait until October for the money they are owed after a government announcement today
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With just a few days to go, UNISON looks at what the main parties have to say on the issues most important to our members
The article General election 2017: Social care first appeared on the UNISON…Read more…
UNISON Cymru/Wales writes to all country’s councils on International Women’s Day
The article Funding care can lift women workers out of poverty, Welsh councils urged first appeared on the UNISON…Read more…
Adult social care is in crisis, but UNISON has a solution – find out how UNISON’s proposal to use a £2.4bn business rate surplus in England would affect funding in your area
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Vulnerable older people are being denied regular showers and visits to the toilet because of cuts to social care budgets, a UNISON report has warned today (Friday). The Damage: Care in Crisis is…Read more…
We have read, written and talked much in recent years about the enormous pressures in our health and social care systems – pressures caused by increasing need as people live longer but are not always well; by public spending cuts; by the necessary expenses of modern, high-tech care; and,…Read more…
East Midlands council signs up to quality care and fair pay during National Carers’ Week
The article Nottingham signs up to UNISON’s Ethical Care Charter first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…