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• Dundee University members appeal for strike hardship donations

  16-09-2021 16:20
  
  UNISON members at Dundee University who are part of, or are eligible to be part of, the university’s superannuation scheme are taking strike action later this month over the employer’s plans to close and replace the defined benefit CARE scheme with a defined contribution scheme next year.
  Affecting around 900 staff on grades one to six, the proposals are set to leave many members in pension poverty and will see some losing up to 40% of their pension. Those on grades hi
  
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• Sodexo agrees to pay NHS 3% rise at South Yorkshire trust

  16-09-2021 16:13
  
  UNISON has today welcomed the news that private company Sodexo, working within the Doncaster & Bassetlaw hospital sites, has agreed to implement and honour the NHS 3% pay deal for 2021 for Sodexo staff that were TUPE transferred over to them from the Doncaster & Bassetlaw Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in 2018.
  UNISON area organiser Margaret Yemm said: “All of our UNISON members working in Sodexo have worked – and continue to work – extremely hard to provide an ongo
  
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• Scrap mandatory vaccine deadline or risk decimating the care sector, says UNISON

  16-09-2021 01:01
  
  The care sector faces catastrophic staff shortages unless unvaccinated workers get their Covid shot by midnight (Thursday) or the government listens to reason and abandons its draconian ‘no jab, no job’ policy, warns UNISON.
  Care workers must have their first vaccination today (Thursday) to beat the government’s deadline of 11 November to be double-jabbed or be banned from entering care homes in England. UNISON believes mandatory vaccination should be scrapped or thou
  
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