‘A brilliant example of how organising works’ – UNISON celebrates a major victory against outsourcing
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The power of organising and how to win the outsourcing battle
‘A brilliant example of how organising works’ – UNISON celebrates a major victory against outsourcing
The article The power of organising and how to win the outsourcing battle first appeared on the UNISON National site.
Health conference asks why ambulance staff aren’t an emergency service
Conference debates ambulance and privatisation issues and discusses how to make the union ‘ballot ready’
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Conservatives putting everything up for grabs on NHS, says UNISON
Briefing lays bare Tory thinking
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Blackpool hospital staff begin two-day strike
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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NHS cleaners win pay parity battle at Basildon Hospital
Outsourced staff were transferred back in house two years ago, but kept on minimum wage
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UNISON vows greater support for private sector members
Workers for private contractors are the fastest growing group of UNISON members
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UNISON vows to step up fight on wholly owned subsidiaries
Delegates at UNISON health conference voice their anger over trusts’ moves to transfer staff and create two-tier workforces
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Inside the NHS’s winter crisis
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…
Fighting for the right to nurse
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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Health and social care has suffered the ‘most austere’ decade ever
UNISON delegates agree: we can’t have integration ‘on the cheap’
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General election 2017: The NHS
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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Ambulance staff are ‘breaking under the strain’
UNISON health delegates discuss the pressures on ambulance members whose stressful jobs are made even more difficult by cuts
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A matter of life and death
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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New government must ‘reverse the trend’ of NHS privatisation
UNISON urges ministers to think again after the consultancy behind series of failed privatisations is shut down
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Tide is turning against government’s austerity programme, says UNISON
The public willingness to accept cuts to public services is ‘exhausted’
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Corbyn vows to scrap Trade Union Act when in government
‘Trade unions are a force for good and a force for equality in our society’, Labour leader tells conference
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UNISON’s referendum campaign reaches new heights
‘Don’t risk our NHS, vote to remain in the EU’ urges giant banner at UNISON Centre
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UNISON vows to stand up for members over ‘savings’ review
Union presents interim research into Carter Review recommendations on English NHS as health conference opens
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A foolish, petty and self-defeating cut
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…