Make sure your NHS employer is getting it right when it comes to our members’ take-home pay
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Bolton members vote to strike over pay equality
Industrial action vote follows offer of 2% – well below Agenda for Change agreement – for workers transferred to NHS subco
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Union hails trust’s u-turn on private company plans a ‘fantastic victory’
Tees, Esk and Wear Valley trust becomes latest to abandon plans to transfer staff to private wholly owned subsidiary company
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Get ready for UNISON’s annual NHS staff survey
The survey aims to take a snapshot of life working in the NHS on a single day – and this year, it’s open to all health service staff
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UNISON calls on Salisbury NHS trust to rethink wholly owned subsidiary plans
UNISON warns that outsourcing hospital staff will create two-tier workforce as trust starts a month of consultations
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August: it was no holiday
There was no lying on sun-loungers for UNISON or many of our members involved in key struggles at work
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Bolton hospital workers’ pay ballot opens
Voting papers dispatched today in vote over action on pay parity
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Bolton hospital workers to ballot on action for pay parity
Wholly-owned subsidiary pays staff less than directly-employed workers after failing to implement NHS pay rise
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Scottish NHS members vote for three-year pay deal
94% vote for deal offering at least a 9% rise over three years, in four-week online ballot
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Do you know a health hero and want to make sure they’re recognised?
Nominations for the 2018 Our Health Heroes, honouring the vital work done by NHS support staff, are now open and close on 16 September
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Yorkshire hospitals strike called off after trust hats privatisation plan
Trust announced that it has scrapped plans to create a wholly-owned subsidiary after angry response at staff meetings
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New strike dates announced in Wigan ‘subco‘ dispute
WWL strikers with general secretary Dave Prentis on the 30 June NHS march in London Hospital workers in Wigan will strike for another seven days in two weeks time, as their dispute over being…Read more…
What would you do?
Ayrshire mental health nurse Gordon Mckay knew he had to act when he saw a colleague reduced to tears by a manager in the 1990s – now he’s the union president
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March for the NHS – how it went down, in pictures
Thousands of people marched through central London to celebrate the 70th birthday of the NHS, and show that they’re willing to fight for it
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‘We want to stay in the NHS: for ourselves and future generations’
Members at Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS trust started a five-day strike today – here’s why, their own words
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UNISON escalates its campaign against NHS outsourcing
‘We are one team and we want to stay as a team’, Wigan strikers tell conference delegates
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The alarming crisis in health and social care
UNISON’s national delegate conference votes to enact a detailed ten-point plan to fight for social care and the NHS
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Evelyn Beckley: ‘a shining example of hard-working NHS support staff’
UNISON member wins award for ‘operational services excellence’ at NHS England Windrush Awards to mark 70th anniversary of NHS
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UNISON vows to highlight crucial value of social care
New report published in run-up to government green paper
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Pay rise for NHS staff in England
UNISON members vote overwhelmingly in favour of three year pay deal
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