Delegates in Liverpool debate a number of motions aimed at protecting NHS staff who face daily violence and harassment
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Health conference: Violence and harassment are not part of the job’
Delegates in Liverpool debate a number of motions aimed at protecting NHS staff who face daily violence and harassment
The article Health conference: Violence and harassment are not part of the job’ first appeared on the UNISON National site.
Nurses and midwives subjected to violence at work on a daily basis, according to UNISON/Nursing Times survey
NHS staff say assaults can be a daily occurrence
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Nurses and midwives subjected to violence at work on a daily basis
NHS staff say assaults can be a daily occurrence
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Stop violence at work: Please take the campaign survey
A new survey will help your union to understand the problem and guide work on it
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Stop violence at work: Please take the campaign survey
A new survey will help your union to understand the problem and guide work on it
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Library workers: have you experienced abuse at work?
“I’ve also had customers hurl racist abuse at me and others have refused to be served by me.”
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Assaults survey: full findings reveal rising abuse of frontline housing staff
“He came right up to me and had his finger within inches of my face – it was awful.”
Alison* is describing an experience she had while working as a frontline housing officer in the North East of England. She was leading a public meeting for her local …Read more…
Rebuild our communities and end violence
UNISON conference hears stories of violence and aggression including teaching assistants having to wear stab vests
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Ending violence at work
Two new organisations sign up to UNISON’s charter
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Intolerable call centre abuse
Conference hears that energy members should not have to face aggression and abuse at work
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Library workers ‘put heart and soul into service’
UNISON lays down plans to protect service and workers after hearing of members burned out and facing threats and violence
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College staff need training in handling weapon-related incidents
Staff and students have suffered serious injuries as a result of offensive weapons being brought into colleges, according to a UNISON survey published today (Tuesday). Machetes, hammers, metal bars…Read more…
Zero tolerance
This is the shocking list of injuries and assaults suffered by Mitie security staff at Southampton General Hospital: injured and broken ribs, broken noses, a dislocated knee, a broken finger, black…Read more…
Liverpool signs up to UNISON’s End Violence at Work charter
City council becomes first to make union’s charter a key part of its commissioning process
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Urging councillors to help end violence at work
UNISON has written to every elected councillor in the UK asking them to make the union’s ‘End Violence at Work Charter’ a central part of their commissioning process
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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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“What it’s like to be on the receiving end of a violent attack…” Lynn’s Story and UNISON Charter on Violence at Work
Yesterday there was a Parliamentary launch of the UNISON Violence at work Charter for the 3rd Sector. There was a number of MPs and employers who turned up to support the launch. The contribution by UNISON Member, Lynn Gillespie, at this event about he…Read more…
Time to stop the violence plaguing workers in the community sector
MPs join UNISON members and employers at parliamentary launch of union’s Violence at Work charter
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More join our fight against violence at work
Community service group committed to using the charter to help end the belief that violence and aggression is ‘part of the job’
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