Conference debates ambulance and privatisation issues and discusses how to make the union ‘ballot ready’
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Conference debates ambulance and privatisation issues and discusses how to make the union ‘ballot ready’
The article Health conference asks why ambulance staff aren’t an emergency service first appeared on the UNISON National site.
Briefing lays bare Tory thinking
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Private company Compass claims it can’t afford an 82p pay rise despite generating £1.7bn in profit and paying their boss £4.6m
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Outsourced staff were transferred back in house two years ago, but kept on minimum wage
The article NHS cleaners win pay parity battle at Basildon Hospital first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Workers for private contractors are the fastest growing group of UNISON members
The article UNISON vows greater support for private sector members first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Delegates at UNISON health conference voice their anger over trusts’ moves to transfer staff and create two-tier workforces
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The nation is in panic over the so-called ‘winter crisis’ in the NHS. But according to paramedic and UNISON member Jason Anderson, such pressures have become “the norm” for health staff on the…Read more…
Emily Heron had already given up one dream, in order to care for her stricken father.
Now dream – to become a nurse – is being thwarted by the government
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UNISON delegates agree: we can’t have integration ‘on the cheap’
The article Health and social care has suffered the ‘most austere’ decade ever first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
With the election now upon us, UNISON considers its five key demands for the NHS – and how the main parties measure up in their manifestos
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UNISON health delegates discuss the pressures on ambulance members whose stressful jobs are made even more difficult by cuts
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The NHS is continually criticised by its government regulator for being in the red – but it’s the beleaguered services that really matter
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UNISON urges ministers to think again after the consultancy behind series of failed privatisations is shut down
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The public willingness to accept cuts to public services is ‘exhausted’
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‘Trade unions are a force for good and a force for equality in our society’, Labour leader tells conference
The article Corbyn vows to scrap Trade Union Act when in government first appeared on the…Read more…
‘Don’t risk our NHS, vote to remain in the EU’ urges giant banner at UNISON Centre
The article UNISON’s referendum campaign reaches new heights first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
Union presents interim research into Carter Review recommendations on English NHS as health conference opens
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Saving less than a million pounds a week whilst making it harder to recruit more nurses, plans to cut the NHS bursary must be one of the most foolish, petty and self-defeating cuts to come from this…Read more…
Becoming an organ donor can be a gift – both for the lives you save, and the loved ones you leave behind
The article A life lost can mean another saved first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
Writer and veteran campaigner Harry Leslie Smith looks to the past and shares his hopes – and fears – for the future
The article A history man’s challenge for the future first appeared on the…Read more…