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• £300,000 in back pay for council and schools workers in Bolton

  02-06-2023 16:00 via unison.org.uk
  
  UNISON has secured a deal totalling almost £300,000 pounds in holiday pay for over 2,000 council workers and schools staff in Bolton.
  The deal resolves a two-year disagreement between the union and Bolton council, after hundreds of workers’ holiday pay was miscalculated. 
  Some workers have already received back pay in their April or May salary with others expected to receive backdated payments in June.
  UNISON acting Branch Secretary for Bolton Christine Collins said: “I am
  
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• Blog: Proud to welcome in Pride

  01-06-2023 13:11 via unison.org.uk
  
  Today, we welcome in Pride season when UNISON activists will again join Prides across every region and nation to celebrate our LGBT+ members and the wider community.
  UNISON’s LGBT+ members bring so much to our union, and make it a diverse, wonderful organisation to join and to work for.
  A year on from the last time I wrote about Pride month, it’s sad that such little progress has been made in our society and even worse, that in some ways, the UK government is taking huge leaps backwa
  
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• How to build a better bank contract – June 2023

  31-05-2023 16:20 via unison.org.uk
  
  The 2023 pay round has highlighted some campaigning, organising and bargaining opportunities around bank contracts. This guidance is aimed at UNISON branches and organisers to help them have informed conversations with members who work on an NHS-operated bank as their primary contract (rather than those employed via NHS Professionals or a private agency). It covers ideas to improve these terms and how to build a 5-step plan to win.
  Some NHS employers make substantive staff work on a bank contrac
  
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• EA workers renew strike mandate

  31-05-2023 15:52 via unison.org.uk
  
  UNISON has announced that Environment Agency members have secured a mandate for strike action over the next six months after the recent industrial action ballot.
  The new mandate marks a continuation of the dispute, begun last year, where EA members voted for strike action over pay for the first time in the agency’s history.
  Donna Rowe-Merriman, national secretary for the sector, said: “Workers have endured over a decade of pay erosion where the value of their pay has reduced by over
  
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• The numbers behind council and school pay

  31-05-2023 12:14 via unison.org.uk
  
  UNISON has been campaigning for a decent pay rise for council and school workers, calling for a pay increase of inflation plus 2% – based on the Treasury’s annual forecast for RPI for 2023, this amounted to 12.7% at the time of the pay claim.
  However, the local government employers have responded with an offer of a flat rate increase of £1,925 (with less for part-time and term-time workers)
  So, what does that mean for council and schools workers?
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• Care workers in Wales win 15% increase and Foundation Living Wage

  31-05-2023 10:46 via unison.org.uk
  
  After months of campaigning, support workers in Wales have secured a 15% pay increase and the Foundation Living Wage.
  In April 2022, the Welsh Government made £48m available to social care providers to fund an uplift to the Foundation Living Wage for registered care workers in Wales, which is now £10.90.
  However, months went by and carers working for Integra Community Living Options did not see any extra money in their pay packets. Union members approached the Cardiff County UNISON B
  
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• South Gloucestershire workers continue strike dispute

  30-05-2023 17:20 via unison.org.uk
  
  Social workers and occupational therapists (OTs) working for South Gloucestershire council are to strike twice this week.
  Staff will walk out for two days of action, today (Tuesday) and again on Thursday (1 June) after voting overwhelmingly for industrial action in a dispute over pay.
  UNISON has been in dispute with the local authority since last summer. The new dates follow three days of strike action in April.
  The dispute started after a decision by the council to award staff in children&rsquo
  
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• School budgets reach breaking point, so UNISON members are taking action

  24-05-2023 17:51 via unison.org.uk
  
  Schools are grappling with insufficient funding. As school budgets reach breaking point, there are inevitable consequences for the quality of education being provided to young people, as well as the working conditions of school staff.
  New research from UNISON has shown that funding remains significantly below 2010 levels, and a pupil who started school in 2010 will have lost out on an average of £5,384 of funding as a result of budget cuts. 
  On a daily basis, this means larger class s
  
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• UNISON joins emergency protest against anti-strike bill

  23-05-2023 14:21 via unison.org.uk
  
  UNISON members, the TUC and protesters rallied outside the Westminster parliament last night to defend the right to strike.
  The emergency protest coincided with the government’s new anti-strike legislation, the Strikes (Minimum Services Levels) Bill.What is the anti-strike bill?Eddie Brand from UNISON London Ambulance Service branch, which has taken action four times in the last year, spoke at the protest.
  Addressing the crowds, Mr Brand said: “The very same members who were cal
  
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• Blog: We must stop this managed decline of local government

  23-05-2023 10:41 via unison.org.uk
  
  UNISON’s campaign for fair pay continues with full force today as we open our industrial action ballot of over 360,000 local government workers in England and Wales.
  Once again, we’re up against restrictive anti-trade union laws that mean we need a big turnout and a big ‘yes’ vote to take strike action. So we’re doing all we can to get out the vote and beat those ballot thresholds.
  Pay in councils and schools has fallen by 25% in real terms since 2010. And the
  
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• Details of crumbling schools must be published, says UNISON

  23-05-2023 01:01 via unison.org.uk
  
  Commenting on the Labour Party’s move today (Tuesday) to force the government to reveal details of the location and condition of school buildings at risk of collapse, UNISON head of education Mike Short said:
  “The potentially dangerous state of some school buildings is a matter of urgent public interest. Parents, carers and staff should be told if any school buildings are on the brink of collapse.
  “This is a disas
  
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• Council and school staff begin strike ballot over pay, says UNISON

  23-05-2023 01:01 via unison.org.uk
  
  More than a third of a million council and school support staff across England and Wales will begin voting today (Tuesday) on whether to strike over pay, says UNISON.
  The wage offer made by employers to local government staff is nowhere near what’s needed to meet rising prices during the cost of living crisis, says the union. 
  UNISON had called for an increase of 2% above inflation. Now the union is asking more than 360,000 workers it represents in the sector whether they ar
  
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• The increasing pressures on raising a family

  22-05-2023 16:36 via unison.org.uk
  
  UNISON has renewed its commitment to campaign for fully-funded childcare in the wake of a new report showing the extent to which working parents are struggling.
  2023 Working Families Index, published last week, found that significantly more parents are reporting it is ‘financially harder to raise a family’.
  60% of respondents reported that making ends meet and raising a family has become more difficult ‘over the last three years’. This represents a significant increase fr
  
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• The increasing pressures of raising a family

  22-05-2023 16:36 via unison.org.uk
  
  UNISON has renewed its commitment to campaign for fully-funded childcare in the wake of a new report showing the extent to which working parents are struggling.
  2023 Working Families Index, published last week, found that significantly more parents are reporting it is ‘financially harder to raise a family’.
  60% of respondents reported that making ends meet and raising a family has become more difficult ‘over the last three years’. This represents a significant increase fr
  
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• NEC backs the right to strike emergency protest

  19-05-2023 14:45 via unison.org.uk
  
  UNISON’s national executive council (NEC) has encouraged as many members as possible to attend the TUC-organised emergency protest in Westminster at 6pm on Monday (22 May) and defend the right to strike.
  The strike-busting legislation is returning to parliament on Monday and UNISON, along with other unions, believes that the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill, is a full-frontal attack on working people and the trade unions they organise within.
  Details of the demonstration can be found
  
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• Local government workers are ‘everyday action heroes’

  18-05-2023 12:25 via unison.org.uk
  
  Every day, everyone’s lives are affected by local council staff. Our communities depend on the 1.3 million local government workers who spend their working lives looking out for others.We may not see them when they’re working through the night, caring for older and disabled people, or at the crack of dawn when they’re clearing up our streets and parks to keep the environment clean and healthy, but the impact of their work is there when we wake up.
  We don’t get to see eve
  
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• Emergency protest against the anti-strike bill

  18-05-2023 10:59 via unison.org.uk
  
  The TUC is holding a protest against the government’s Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill on Monday 22 May, the same day the legislation returns to parliament.
  The protest will be held in Westminster at 6pm.
  Register your attendance here
  UNISON believes that the new anti-strike bill, named the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill, is a full-frontal attack on working people and the trade unions they organise within. It seeks to drastically curtail labour rights in Great Britain and allow
  
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• Council workers assemble … ‘everyday action hero’ figures launched by UNISON

  18-05-2023 02:15 via unison.org.uk
  
  UNISON is recognising unsung heroes for their contribution to the community by launching lifelike action figures of council workers
  Each ‘everyday action hero’ figure comes complete with outfit, props, and comic strip designed by a renowned Marvel artist
  The limited-edition figurines include a community care worker, lollipop lady, librarian and refuse worker
  The union is raising awareness of the important role local councils play in providing essential services
  Care workers, crossin
  
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• LGBT+ rights are at the heart of UNISON’s work

  17-05-2023 15:19 via unison.org.uk
  
  It’s international day against homophobia, biphobia and transphobia (IDAHOBIT) – a day to commemorate the removal of homosexuality from the World Health Organisation’s list of mental disorders, and is a call to action as LGBT+ people are faced with new and increasing attacks.
  As a proud ally to the LGBT+ community, I’m concerned about the rise of LGBT+ hate crime and hate speech. The lack of progress in protecting LGBT+ people against abhorrent practices like conversion t
  
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• University strikes loom unless pay increases

  15-05-2023 11:00 via unison.org.uk
  
  Support staff at nine universities in England have voted to strike over a “sub-par” pay offer from the Universities and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA), says UNISON today (Monday).
  Cleaners, IT technicians, library staff and other higher education workers will now decide on dates to take action unless UCEA increases its pay offer for 2023/24.UNISON says the current offer falls a long way short of inflation and staff deserve more.
  Staff could walk out at the University of Bedfo
  
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• ‘The largest election we have in UNISON’

  09-05-2023 16:40 via unison.org.uk
  
  Every two years, a new group of senior union activists are elected to lead the union’s national executive committee (NEC), which represents 1.3 million members.
  It’s the union’s membership that elects them.
  The NEC makes decisions about the future of our union that directly affect UNISON members, which is why it’s vital that all members have their say in who gets to be involved.
  Nicky Ramanandi is UNISON’s regional convenor for the Northern region. With a 17-year hi
  
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• Strike-breaking legislation is unlawful, argues UNISON in High Court

  05-05-2023 14:40 via unison.org.uk
  
  General Secretary Christina McAnea (centre) with UNISON’s legal team outside the High Court this week
  UNISON is challenging the government this week over regulations that allow employers to hire agency staff to replace striking workers.
  Alongside the NASUWT and TUC, whose case is on behalf of eleven unions, UNISON asks that the High Court declares the government’s removal of regulation on agency workers unlawful. Together, the unions represent millions of workers in the UK.
  Since 197
  
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• Insourcing campaigners at Barts NHS Trust celebrate final phase

  04-05-2023 15:15 via unison.org.uk
  
  Christina McAnea celebrating with health members at Whipps Cross University Hospital
  Cleaning, catering, and support workers at Barts Health NHS Trust are now directly employed by the NHS again, following a successful campaign by UNISON to bring them back in-house, the union announced this week.
  The trust had been gradually bringing the 1,800 staff, previously employed by Serco, back under its employment since last November, and the process was completed on Monday (1 May).
  Security and reception
  
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• UNISON calls for tougher taxes on energy profits

  03-05-2023 17:23 via unison.org.uk
  
  UNISON is calling for oil and gas giants to be taxed properly in order to raise more money for the public purse, after BP announced profits of £4 billion in the first three months of this year.
  The union believes this money belongs in the pay packets of public sector workers, rather than the pockets of shareholders. 
  UNISON has launched a petition calling for chancellor Jeremy Hunt to “make oil and gas giants – not ordinary households – pay the price” by closin
  
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• Three steps to NEC heaven

  03-05-2023 16:43 via unison.org.uk
  
  The future of our union is in your hands. It’s time to decide who will represent you on UNISON’s national executive council (NEC).
  But time is running out. Voting closes on 19 May.
  Members of UNISON have a direct say on who will work with UNISON’s general secretary to steer our union through these difficult times.
  Your vote is essential in ensuring we have the right leaders making crucial decisions for all of us. And from the very close results of previous elections, we do know
  
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• Blog: Don’t give away your power

  03-05-2023 15:18 via unison.org.uk
  
  Every week is a busy week for UNISON. And although it’s only Wednesday, we’ve already achieved so much this week.
  We’ve pushed the government one step closer to getting more money into the pockets of NHS workers, we’ve supported our CQC members taking strike action in their dispute over pay, and today, our legal team entered the Royal Courts of Justice to challenge the government on their strike-breaking laws.
  UNISON members, activists and staff all play their part in mak
  
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• Cuts since 2010 have cost pupils £5,000 each in lost education

  02-05-2023 17:00 via unison.org.uk
  
  Government cuts to schooling mean a pupil who started school in England in 2010 has lost out on £5,384 of education funding by the time they graduate sixth form this year, according to new research published by UNISON.
  Independent analysis, commissioned by the union from economic experts Landman Economics, shows the cumulative effect of Conservative cuts. It shows that, even with the increased money promised for each pupil in the 2022 Autumn Statement, funding remains significantly below 2
  
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• NHS workers must now get their money as soon as possible, says UNISON

  02-05-2023 15:39 via unison.org.uk
  Following the majority union vote in favour of accepting the government’s pay offer at the NHS staff council today (Tuesday), ministers and employers must ensure health workers get their money as soon as possible, says UNISON.
  UNISON head of health Sara Gorton, who chairs the union group on the NHS staff council, said: “NHS workers will now want the pay rise they’ve voted to accept. The hope is that the one-off payment and salary increase will be in June’s pay packets.
  &l
  
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• UNISON to challenge government strike-breaking laws at High Court

  02-05-2023 09:00 via unison.org.uk
  
  Tomorrow, UNISON will be challenging the government’s new strike-breaking laws in the High Court.
  Since 1976, it has been unlawful for employers to introduce or supply agency workers to replace workers who are taking part in a strike or industrial action. For decades, it has been a criminal offence to knowingly supply agency workers on strike days.
  However, in the heat of last summer’s rail strikes, the government rapidly removed this key regulation without consulting trade unions. S
  
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• Movement on pay needed to avoid delays and cancellations of CQC inspections, says UNISON

  02-05-2023 01:01 via unison.org.uk
  
  Staff at the Care Quality Commission (CQC) will strike today (Tuesday) in their ongoing dispute over pay, says UNISON today (Tuesday)
  Employees represented by UNISON, including those working in inspection teams, call centres and data analysis, will walk out along with colleagues belonging to PCS and Unite.
  There will be severely reduced capacity at call centres to deal with reports from the public about serious concerns, emergency inspections may not take place and planned visits may be delayed
  
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• Social carers in Liverpool secure living wage

  28-04-2023 17:29 via unison.org.uk
  
  UNISON North West has secured the Foundation Living Wage for all care workers commissioned by Liverpool Council. The wage increase will come into place in April 2024.
  UNISON’s Stand Up for Social Care campaign began when the union conducted research to see which councils were paying carers above the living wage. 
  After securing the living wage for carers across the greater Manchester area, increasing pay for around 25,000 carers, the union’s organisers set their sights on Mersey
  
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• Care workers in Liverpool secure living wage

  28-04-2023 17:29 via unison.org.uk
  
  UNISON North West has secured the Foundation Living Wage for all care workers commissioned by Liverpool Council. The wage increase will come into place in April 2024.
  UNISON’s Stand Up for Social Care campaign began when the union conducted research to see which councils were paying carers above the living wage. 
  After securing the living wage for carers across the greater Manchester area, increasing pay for around 25,000 carers, the union’s organisers set their sights on Mersey
  
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• Joint UNISON, GMB and Unite statement on the outcome of their complaint against the NEU

  28-04-2023 16:36 via unison.org.uk
  
  In late 2022, having failed to reach an agreement informally, UNISON, along with the GMB and Unite unions submitted a formal complaint to the TUC about the NEU’s organising activities and recruitment of school support staff.
  The complaint alleged that the NEU had actively sought to recruit school support staff and had intervened in pay negotiations (known as the NJC) between the three recognised unions and the local government employers.
  This undermined a previous agreement between all fou
  
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• England’s largest academy trust withholding back pay from staff, says UNISON

  28-04-2023 01:11 via unison.org.uk
  
  United Learning Trust (ULT) – England’s largest school academy chain – is withholding £1.5m in back pay from employees, says UNISON today (Friday).
  The union has now launched a grievance on behalf of more than 3,000 support staff across the country against ULT, which runs 70 schools with more than 40,000 pupils.
  UNISON is seeking up to £800 for each worker including teaching assistants, librarians and school technicians. This is the amount the union s
  
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• Bank’s chief economist is “living on another planet”

  26-04-2023 13:31 via unison.org.uk
  
  Commenting on remarks made by Bank of England chief economist Huw Pill that British households “need to accept” they’re poorer and stop pushing for wage rises, UNISON general secretary Christina McAnea said today (Wednesday):
  “Huw Pill is living on another planet. On his comfortable salary, he clearly has no idea of the impact soaring prices are having on working people and their families. 
  “Millions are barely getting by, unable to pay thei
  
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• Ignoring the social care crisis will worsen the broken system, says UNISON

  26-04-2023 13:27 via unison.org.uk
  
  Commenting on the report by the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (Adass) that calls on the government to reform the system of care and support in England, UNISON head of social care Gavin Edwards said:
  “Ministers are choosing to ignore the social care crisis. Deep-rooted staffing problems will only begin to be resolved by addressing endemic low pay in the sector. 
  “A national care service with better pay and conditions would end the profiteering in car
  
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• At least it means

  23-04-2023 16:41 via publiclibrariesnews.com
  
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• Blog: Honouring Stephen, Doreen and Neville Lawrence

  21-04-2023 14:56 via unison.org.uk
  
  Today we mark the 30th anniversary of the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence. Each anniversary marks a year of life denied to Stephen, who was only 18 when he died.
  Our hearts go out to his parents, Baroness Doreen Lawrence and Neville Lawrence for whom this day, thirty years ago, was the start of their courageous battle for justice. They took on not only Stephen’s murderers, but the police force that failed Stephen at every turn.
  UNISON was proud to stand with Stephen’s parents from
  
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• Recruitment, retention and registration discussed at health conference

  20-04-2023 17:18 via unison.org.uk
  
   
  Health conference closed yesterday (Wednesday) with a session focussing on the recruitment and retention of health staff.Jonathon Whitney (pictured above) from University Hospitals Birmingham branch moved a motion calling on UNISON to campaign to reinstate paid training and raise public awareness of health student debt.
  Speaking of his personal experience with the bursary system that was ended in 2016, he said: “In 2009 I found myself in an awkward situation. Having been made redund
  
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• Health conference asks why ambulance staff aren’t an emergency service

  20-04-2023 17:00 via unison.org.uk
  
  The final day of UNISON’s annual health conference in Bournemouth opened with delegates standing in a minute’s silence to mark the upcoming International Workers’ Memorial Day on 28 April (above).
  Moving to the business of the day, debates were heard on a variety issues.
  Retirement age parity
  A motion submitted by the ambulance occupational group highlighted the disparity in retirement age between police, fire service and ambulance staff.
  Peter Steventon, South East central amb
  
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• Care Quality Commission staff to strike in escalation of pay row, says UNISON

  20-04-2023 13:17 via unison.org.uk
  
  Hundreds of staff at the Care Quality Commission (CQC) are to strike for one day in a dispute over pay, says UNISON today (Thursday).
  Staff represented by UNISON, including those working in inspection teams, call centres and data analysis, will be striking on Tuesday 2 May. Workers represented by the PCS and Unite will also be on strike on the same day.
  CQC employees started a continuous work to rule on Monday 17 April 2023. This means they are only working the hours they are paid for, not doing
  
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• Blog: This is democracy in action

  20-04-2023 11:00 via unison.org.uk
  
  There is something important happening inside our union right now, and every UNISON member has the chance to take part in it. It’s our National Executive Council (NEC) elections, and this week, the ballot opened.
  Whoever you elect to the NEC, will work with me to steer our union over the next two years. As the leader of our great union, I’ve always been clear that we want to increase participation in important votes like these, so that as many members as possible have their say.
  The
  
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• Health workers and activists on the brink

  19-04-2023 15:22 via unison.org.uk
  
  Delegates at UNISON’s health conference in Bournemouth this week shared harrowing experiences of how they and their fellow members are suffering the mental toll of their duties and workplace experiences, through and beyond the pandemic.
  The persistent theme was of a workforce hellbent on protecting the public – and, in the case of activists, protecting their fellow members – while paying the price in their own deteriorating health and wellbeing.
  Martin McKay, of Scotland region
  
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• Health workers and activists endure “unrelenting stress”

  19-04-2023 15:22 via unison.org.uk
  
  Delegates at UNISON’s health conference in Bournemouth this week shared harrowing experiences of how they and their fellow members are suffering the mental toll of their duties and workplace experiences, through and beyond the pandemic.
  The persistent theme was of a workforce hellbent on protecting the public – and, in the case of activists, protecting their fellow members – while paying the price in their own deteriorating health and wellbeing.
  Martin McKay, of Scotland region
  
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• Health conference debates pay

  18-04-2023 19:58 via unison.org.uk
  
  Images: Jess Hurd
  Pay talk dominated conference business this morning (Tuesday) at UNISON’s annual health conference in Bournemouth.
  The morning started with general secretary Christina McAnea taking the opportunity to invite representatives from all health branches who secured a strike mandate in their pay disputes over the last year, to take to the stage, where they received an impassioned standing ovation from delegates (pictured above).Conference business then started with an emergency
  
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• Health conference celebrates union’s re-banding wins

  18-04-2023 17:21 via unison.org.uk
  
  The ground-breaking re-banding of health care assistants (HCAs) achieved by UNISON branches in recent months was celebrated by health conference delegates in Bournemouth yesterday, during a busy afternoon of Agenda for Change motions.
  Campaigns on overtime, reducing the working week and protecting the NHS pension were among the other key topics discussed by delegates.
  Among the re-banding wins, last year thousands of HCAs across Manchester received up to £5,000 in backdated earnings, after
  
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• UNISON secures pay win for Canal and River Trust workers

  18-04-2023 16:57 via unison.org.uk
  
  Canal and River Trust workers keep England and Wales’ waterways running smoothly by removing waste, keeping towpaths clear and maintaining locks and moorings among other duties. The average salary is around £26,000.
  In 2022, workers were offered a below-inflation increase of 5.5%, made up of a 4% interim award in June and an extra 1.5% in October. An overwhelming majority of UNISON members (83%) rejected it.
  After negotiations at ACAS, UNISON representatives secured an offer of 8.2%
  
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• UNISON announces Green Week dates in run up to Earth Day

  18-04-2023 12:52 via unison.org.uk
  
  In the run up to Earth Day on Saturday 22 April, UNISON has announced the dates of the union’s popular Green Week, which will run from 15 – 22 September this year.
  The union will once again be supporting and encouraging branches to mark Green UNISON Week, using it to celebrate, discuss and share how the union is working to green public services.
  From Friday 15 to Friday 22 September inclusive, branches UK will be asked to consider organising a week of activities to call for urgent ac
  
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• ‘This deal puts money in members pay packets – and they voted decisively to accept it’

  17-04-2023 17:32 via unison.org.uk
  
  Photos: Jess Hurd
  UNISON’s general secretary Christina McAnea, gave the keynote address to UNISON’s annual health conference this afternoon (Monday) in Bournemouth and thanked the lay leadership, staff and each and every health activist for their work during a “tough year” for the NHS.
  Throughout that year, the health service has faced “the longest waiting times on record, highest levels of dissatisfaction, highest levels of staff vacancies.”
  But Ms McAne
  
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• Powerful anti-racism debate opens UNISON health conference

  17-04-2023 15:21 via unison.org.uk
  
  UNISON’s national health conference opened in Bournemouth today (Monday) with a passionate debate on the continuing fight against racism in the NHS.
  The motion ‘Challenging racism in the NHS’, noted that data from the NHS Workforce Race Equalities Standard (WRES) continues to show that higher levels of Black workers are experiencing harassment, bullying and abuse from staff and patients, than their white colleagues.
  Black workers also have less access to training and career opp
  
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