After four months of collective action, support workers received £780 back pay alongside the pay increase
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Care workers in Powys face fire and rehire
Care workers in Powys have been stripped of their paid break times and must now work longer hours
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Mr Jones – Ukraine 1932 (and 2022) BBC iPlayer
Recently I watch this film on BBC iPlayer. This is about a Welsh journalist, Gareth Jones, who exposed the “Holodomor” (Great famine) in Ukraine during the 1930s. This famine killed millions and was caused either intentionally and/or&…Read more…
UNISON Community Conference 2023 – Day 2
I posted on Day 1 here on the UNISON annual Seminar/conference for Community (Housing Association & Voluntary sector workers). Which went pretty well. Denise and I started the 2nd day leafleting delegates as they arrived for conference an…Read more…
Etholiadau NEC UNSAIN 2023: Datganiad John Gray ar gyfer Sedd Gyffredinol y Gymuned (Papurau pleidleisio yn gollwng 17/4/23)
“Rwy’n gweithio i gymdeithas tai ac yn mynd i’r afael ag ymddygiad gwrthgymdeithasol cymhleth, cam-drin domestig a thwyll tenantiaeth. Fel gweithiwr tai, rwy’n deall yn uniongyrchol straen ac anawsterau darparu gwasanaethau cyhoeddus. Fel stiward a Chy…Read more…
Worlds End walk
I have been enjoying looking at pictures from some great walks Gill and I went on during the recent holidays. The 5 mile circular “World’s End” walk near Wrexham/Horseshoe Pass was magnificent. So dramatic yet so peaceful and a real sense of isol…Read more…
UNISON welcomes Welsh pay announcement for care workers
Care workers to get £1,000 payment, and will receive the real living wage. But the union says more needs to be done for the whole care team
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Welsh leisure centre workers claim insourcing victory
After a UNISON-led campaign, a Welsh council has announced that its leisure services will be brought back in house
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UNISON and the Welsh labour movement, Mark Drakeford’s speech
The First Minister helped to launch UNISON Cymru Wales’ permanent exhibition in Cardiff on 18 November 2021.
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UNISON Cymru/Wales opens consultation on NHS pay
‘It’s vital that we use this consultation to hear from members in every part of the Welsh NHS – every role, every workplace, every pay band’
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UNISON calls for deadline extension for settled status
Many measures supporting workers with the settled status application process have been withdrawn during the pandemic
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UNISON urges Bangor University to ‘put people before buildings’
Third round of job cuts being rushed into due to an ‘anticipated shortfall’ of students
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UNISON welcomes Welsh government’s new social distancing guidelines
First Minister says unions will help with implementing social distancing guidance
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Another university signs up to living wage
South Wales accreditation means all workers on campus, including those employed by contractors, will earn at least £9 an hour
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Bridging the gender pay gap
With more than one million women members representing 80% of the union, conference hears how UNISON is at the forefront of the campaign to eradicate the gender pay gap
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Bangor University staff celebrate victory in pensions dispute
Management had planned to cut pension benefits by up to 12% for support staff before UNISON campaign
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uCVS19 Conference speech 10. “Alexa did you takes our jobs The rising threat of Automation and computerisation in the Housing Sector”
This was my speech to UNISON Community Conference yesterday on Motion 10.
“John Gray, speaking on behalf of the Service Group Executive in favour of motion 10 as amended.
Conference,
This is all disturbing and challenging but negative changes in e…Read more…
University of South Wales cleaners win tribunal case
Private company unlawfully deducted pay from cleaners after agreeing to cover the cost of their travel time to a new site
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The Alwen Trail (& The Fairy Freckled Cow)
Picture collage from a lovely walk in North Wales last week. A 7.5 mile circular walk around the Alwen Dam and Denbigh moors. The dam was built in 1911 and flooded an ancient sheep farm valley in order to provide drinking water for Birkenhead in …Read more…
The Sound of Public Services
A UNISON trio are balancing their public service jobs with a new role – as rock stars
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