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• ‘We must be the generation that rebuilds after the pandemic’

  16-06-2021 14:26
  
  Delegates at UNISON’s special delegate conference today discussed the key issues that needed to be addressed as society emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic – notably pay, equality and climate change.
  The motion Securing an equal and sustainable post pandemic settlement notes that that the UK faces a comparable choice to that one faced after the second world war – to return to how things were before, or create a better future.
  “That choice is clear,” it states, &ldquo
  
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• ‘Unions are very 2021’ – so let’s keep growing

  16-06-2021 13:30
  
  “Conference is extremely proud of the growth in membership across the regions over the past year. This includes not only the high recruitment rate but importantly, the strong retention rate as well.”
  That was the starting point for a motion at special delegate conference on Growing UNISON, learning the good lessons.
  “Health and safety became crucial overnight … membership of trade unions became a new demand,” said Phoebe Watkins from Camden, who moved the motion fo
  
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• Conference demands full inquiry into the handling of the pandemic

  16-06-2021 13:21
  
  The demand for a full public inquiry into the Westminster government’s handling of the COVID pandemic was at the heart of a key debate The impact of COVID-19 on UNISON members, public services and working life at UNISON’s special delegate conference yesterday.
  Margaret McKee (pictured above), moving a motion for the national executive council, told delegates why it was so important: “That government’s failures over the provision of personal protective equipment (PPE) at t
  
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• Invest in vital public services and learn pandemic lessons, says UNISON

  16-06-2021 12:00
  
  Addressing the UNISON annual conference earlier today (Wednesday) general secretary Christina McAnea urged the government to bring forward the start of the Covid public inquiry, ditch plans to compel nervous care workers to be jabbed and invest in the public services that have kept the UK running during the pandemic.
  Christina McAnea said: “I’m incredibly proud to be speaking to you as the first woman general secretary in the history of our union. I must first pay trib
  
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• Compulsory jabs risk driving staff away and are the wrong approach

  16-06-2021 11:55
  
  Responding to reports that the government is set to announce that Covid-19 vaccinations are to be made compulsory for care home staff, UNISON general secretary Christina McAnea said today (Wednesday):
  “The only way out of the pandemic is for everyone that can to have their jabs. Encouragement has the best results and research shows coercion makes the nervous less likely to be vaccinated.
  “The government’s sledgehammer approach now runs the risk that some care staff may&nbs
  
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• Social care needs a radical overhaul urgently to value the vulnerable and staff

  16-06-2021 01:12
  
  Commenting on the Public Accounts Committee report into the adult social care market published today (Wednesday), UNISON general secretary Christina McAnea said:
  “Time and again the hand-to-mouth care system is shown to be broken.
  “It’s crying out urgently for radical reform and proper investment. The Prime Minister can’t go on kicking this problem down the ​road.
  “All too often during the pandemic, social care’s been treated as an inconvenienc
  
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