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• “Insulting” pay offer rejected by council and school staff, says UNISON  

  21-05-2021 18:12
  
  The 1.5% pay offer made by the Local Government Association to council and school support staff last week has been resoundingly rejected by UNISON, the union has announced today (Friday).
  At an earlier meeting of the union’s local government committee, representatives of council and school workers from across England, Wales and Northern Ireland dismissed the offer as ‘insulting’.
  The committee said the amount offered by the employers fell well short of the 10% joint claim submi
  
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• UNISON endorses Labour’s call for an international vaccine plan

  21-05-2021 09:17
  
  UNISON has endorsed Labour’s call for the UK government to back the international vaccine waiver in a bid to tackle COVID-19 around the world.
  Pressure is growing on Boris Johnson’s government to follow the US government backing for a patent waiver for coronavirus vaccines at the World Trade Organisation.
  But writing in The Guardian, shadow secretary of state for international trade Emily Thornberry argues that a patent waiver should only be the start of coor
  
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