UK’s health and care services would collapse without skilled workers from overseas
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Migrant workers deserve dignity and recognition for their essential roles, says UNISON
UK’s health and care services would collapse without skilled workers from overseas
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Government migrant worker reforms risk another Windrush-style scandal, warns UNISON
Ministers must pause these proposals immediately and properly investigate the effect of any reforms
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Government migrant worker reforms risk another Windrush-style scandal, warns UNISON
Ministers must pause these proposals immediately and properly investigate the effect of any reforms
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If Johnson’s Rwanda plan for asylum seekers is legal, why is he afraid to defend it in court? | Mark Serwotka
Refugees – and civil servants who’ll have to effect this cruel policy – will both suffer. That’s why proper scrutiny is essentialMark Serwotka is general secretary of the Public and Commercial…Read more…
Police staff pay freeze ‘deeply insulting’
Unions representing police staff, including control room operatives, 999 calls handlers and forensic specialists, have written to the home secretary Priti Patel asking her to urgently reconsider the…Read more…
“Why my council is refusing to help the Home Office deport rough sleepers” Emine Ibrahim
Hat tip to an excellent article in the Guardian by my UNISON comrade and Housing Lead for Haringey Council, Cllr Emine Ibrahim. I am sure that Newham Council will support this but I was not allowed to bring this issue up at last weeks Cabinet meeting w…Read more…
Newham Against Immigration Centre @NewhamAgainst
Tonight I spoke to young people from Newham via zoom who were very concerned (and other things) about a proposed immigration detention centre being built by the Home Office in Royal Docks, Newham.
Many Newham Councillors (excluding obvious…Read more…
How the Home Office really treats our migrant NHS heroes
“The UK government is using the African and Black community to build their economy. I’ve worked so hard, full-time. Yet, when I renew my visa, I have to pay a £1,000 surcharge to use the NHS.”
The…Read more…
Frontline care and health workers face thousands of pounds of government visa charges
It’s perverse that ministers ignore the contribution of care and NHS support staff
The article Frontline care and health workers face thousands of pounds of government visa charges first appeared…Read more…
Fighting on two fronts – and paying the price
Migrant key workers are on the pandemic frontline but their fight to remain in the country is even harder. UNISON is asking the government to grant them indefinite leave to remain. We hear what that…Read more…
UNISON comment on NHS staff handing patients’ data to the Home Office
Health staff will be relieved to know they no longer have to act as immigration officers on the wards.
The article UNISON comment on NHS staff handing patients’ data to the Home Office first…Read more…
‘Duty of care is to patients’
Home Office immigration officers have asked an East London GP surgery to reveal a patient’s address in what Unite has described as an “appalling” attempt to co-opt health workers into monitoring…Read more…
Windrush: Unite calls for ‘dignity and respect’
Paulette Wilson, 61, has lived in the UK for just over half a century. Part of the Windrush generation – Commonwealth citizens from the Caribbean who were invited by the UK government to settle in…Read more…
Violent crime rise from austerity cuts
An alarming rise in violent crime both in London and throughout the UK has sparked calls for an end to austerity-driven police and youth services cuts. Since March there have been 22 fatal…Read more…
Passport deal appeal?
UK printing firm De La Rue, which last month lost a public contract to a French-Dutch company to produce British passports, announced last night (April 2) that it would challenge the government’s…Read more…
RIPA – amendments are not enough, UK government needs to change the law
The NUJ rejects the new draft code of practice for the UK Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA), which allows the police and other authorities to access journalists’ communications without…Read more…