Labour plans will kickstart the recovery
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Short-term help is welcome but NHS needs permanent workforce fix
Voluntary scheme with fair pay makes sense
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Short-term help is welcome but NHS needs permanent workforce fix
Voluntary scheme with fair pay makes sense
The article Short-term help is welcome but NHS needs permanent workforce fix first appeared on the UNISON National site.
Today’s top stories…Red wall voter fears over Three-Vodafone merger
A Survation poll for Unite of over 1,000 adults in Red Wall seats reveals many voters share Unite’s concerns about Three’s owner, CK Hutchison, and its links to the Chinese state. If the merger is approved CK Group will have significant control over the privacy and security of 27 million UK mobile customers. As Unite […]
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Steve Barclay’s conference speech is ‘deflection politics at its very worst’
Government should focus on fixing health and care, not sow division
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Steve Barclay’s conference speech is ‘deflection politics at its very worst’
Government should focus on fixing health and care, not sow division
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The rural poverty that caused the first bankrupt “Council” & the final home of the Welsh Socialist founder of the NHS, Nye Bevan
Back from a great 6.8 mile circular walk with Gill around Cholesbury Hill fort, Grim Ditch and The Ridgeway, courtesy of the Chilterns Society and Ordnance Survey app. Very quiet and peaceful. Lots of gentle ups and downs with nothing that strenuo…Read more…
Measure for measure
Unite regional secretary Sarah Carpenter, seconded a motion on the government’s measures to increase medical students on behalf of Unite.
Addressing the conference she said, “As our health service buckles in the face of chronic overwork, burnout and the crisis of staffing levels, Doctors in Unite will of course welcome commitments to double medical school places.
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‘Excessive work and dwindling support’
Unite delegate Alan Dobbie spoke in support of a composite on working hours and burnout on the second day of TUC Congress on Monday (September 11). Alan, a health worker, highlighted how he had begun work at the North Middlesex Hospital 26 years ago, and how as a frontline equalities rep, he’s seen the impact […]
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‘Path to pay justice’
Unite delegate David Agbley spoke in support of a composite on pay review bodies at TUC Congress on Sunday (September 10). David told Congress that “over the last 12 months the mask has slipped and the failure of pay review bodies has been exposed”. He highlighted “the fallacy that public sector pay can be depoliticised […]
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‘Rebuild our public services’ call
Unite delegate Bridie McCreesh gave a rousing opening speech in support of funding for public services at the 155th TUC Congress on Sunday (September 10). She told Congress that for well over a decade now, delegates’ speeches from the rostrum “have charted the ruination of our public services”. “First, we warned of the lethal impact […]
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Today’s top stories…London NHS workers to strike
NHS workers at four London NHS Trusts will take strike action next month in a dispute over safe staffing and pay. The workers, who are members of Unite are employed at Barts Health NHS Trust, Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Trust, East London Foundation Trust and Guys and St Thomas’. Over 2,800 workers will be involved […]
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Value
For thirteen years they weakened us.Cut doctors and nurses who treated us.Devalued social workers who cared for us. Bosses mocked and taunted us.Self-employment became bogus.Secure jobs – precarious. Cyclists were turned into modern day pack horses.Eight hours to zero they texted us.In warehouses they tagged us. For ten years we’ve had austeritypushing us into poverty.China […]
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East London NHS Foundation Trust workers to strike
Nearly 400 East London NHS Foundation Trust workers have voted to strike over pay and safe staffing levels, Unite said today (July 26). The workers, from a wide number of professions and roles and based across numerous East London NHS Foundation Trust sites, will join 800 of their colleagues at Guys and St Thomas’ in […]
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Rebuild and protect the NHS
On the first day of Unite’s policy conference on Tuesday (July 11), Unite delegate Cecile Wright of the Unite Nottinghamshire NHS branch in the East Midlands moved a motion on rebuilding and protecting the NHS. Delegates noted the difficulty patients now have in getting GP appointments, dental care and emergency or elective hospital care, as […]
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UNISON launches next stage of One Team Us2 pay campaign
The union is targeting 18 private contractors in the NHS to persuade them to commit to pay that’s equal with directly employed staff
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UNISON launches next stage of One Team Us2 pay campaign
The union is targeting 18 private contractors in the NHS to persuade them to commit to pay that’s equal with directly employed staff
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Protest the party!
Unite’s Unite for a Workers’ Economy campaign staged a protest for the NHS outside the exclusive Carlton Club – a private members’ club frequented by Tory MPs. The protest was held on the 75th anniversary of the founding of the NHS on Wednesday (July 5) to coincide with a party at the club hosted by […]
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Happy 75th anniversary of the NHS
Never forget that the Tories voted against the NHS in 1948 and the principle of free health care at the point of need. They simply cannot be trusted with it and we need a Labour Government in power to save the NHS and make it even more effective….Read more…
NHS’ 75th birthday – ‘staff must be valued not undermined’
Unite is demanding that the NHS’ staff are valued and not undermined to ensure its long-term success. Latest figures show that there are 112,000 vacancies in the NHS and its recruitment crisis is worsening. The NHS’ own staff satisfaction survey shows that three quarters of respondents are unhappy with their level of pay. Meanwhile, 43 […]
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