• ‘We’ve been stabbed in the back by Boris Johnson’

    ‘We’ve been stabbed in the back by Boris Johnson’
    Pay dominated the second day of UNISON’s virtual health conference, with delegates discussing the crisis now facing members’ finances.
    Conference heard of the huge number of health workers earning below the living wage, of hardworking colleagues forced to use food banks, of the student nurses who fell behind in their training as they were enlisted to help fight COVID and now without the investment and support to get back on track.
    Thousands of exhausted NHS staff – including he
  • Healthcare assistants band together over pay

    Healthcare assistants band together over pay
    Healthcare support staff are launching a campaign to demand fair pay for the work they do, in a move unveiled today at UNISON’s special health conference.
    Maura McKenna, the vice chair of the union’s health service group executive, told delegates: “The pay fair for patient care campaign can help branches to win pay justice and the respect, recognition and reward that this big group of workers deserve.”
    Healthcare support staff – mostly referred to as healthcare

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