94% vote for deal offering at least a 9% rise over three years, in four-week online ballot
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Getting hot, hot, hot – July at UNISON
Whilst UNISON enjoyed the sun and the World Cup as much as the next union, we also didn’t let them stop us working as hard as ever on behalf of our members. Here are just some of our highlights from…Read more…
‘Like working for a big family’
Royal Sussex County Hospital – and cake Staff at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton were presented with a giant NHS 70th birthday cake from Unite today (July 5). Staff…Read more…
Pathological service cuts?
Whenever ministers think a public service needs an overhaul, they bring in ‘the experts’. Ironically in many cases ‘the experts’ have limited expertise. And the very last thing ‘the…Read more…
Bring our NHS back to health plea
Policy conference delegates reaffirmed Unite’s commitment to saving the NHS from funding cuts and privatisation on the service’s 70th birthday.
First time speaker Moira Dawson, a nurse from the East…Read more…
Happy Birthday NHS from Unite
To the tune of Stevie Wonder’s Happy Birthday and lit by a sparkling laser display, Unite delegates gave greetings and thanks to the NHS, saluting Unite’s NHS members. Unite…Read more…
Health care like no other
The National Health Service was born on July 5 1948, delivered by visionary Labour health minister Aneurin “Nye” Bevan at a ceremony at Park Hospital in Manchester, which is now Trafford General….Read more…
Proper investment call for key NHS service
Tucked away out of public view at most hospitals is a nuclear medicine laboratory where radioactive materials are kept safely in thick lead containers. Dressed in bright white overalls, face masks…Read more…
Our NHS
Unite members joined health campaigners, trade unionists and people from up and down the country to pay tribute to the NHS for its 70th birthday at a march on Saturday, June 30. Tens of…Read more…
Health of the nation
1948 did not only usher in free universal access to primary health care; it also brought with it an idea radical for its time – that the NHS should “encourage a new attitude to health…the promotion…Read more…
Happy Birthday our NHS!
Here are some delegates’ selfies fresh from our Unite communications digital zone. We love you NHS! …Read more…
Happy Birthday to our NHS – the greatest achievement of our movement
The NHS saved my life – that’s a debt I can never repay. But today, and everyday, I will fight to protect this most special institution and the people working within it. I know that you will all do…Read more…
Squeezing the life from our NHS
Keep Our NHS Public has been one of the most used slogans for years as unions, patient groups and politicians campaign to end the privatisation of health services. Rallies and protests are…Read more…
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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UNISON is busting out all over – our monthly highlights
June saw a number of highlights for the union and our members glisten in the early summer sunshine
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