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• Inside the gas crisis – and how it’ll affect you

  22-09-2021 17:54
  
  An unprecedented upturn in the price of gas is sending shockwaves through the UK energy market, forcing a number of energy suppliers out of business, threatening massive increases to consumer’s bills and even provoking government bailouts of carbon-dioxide producers integral to the food supply chain.
  UNISON’s national officer for energy Matt Ley explains how we got to this point and what it means for our members.
  He paints a dark picture of an entire section of the country’s in
  
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• COVID pandemic has ‘shone a light on inequalities’ in the NHS

  22-09-2021 15:30
  
  UNISON’s virtual health conference closed with a trio of motions dedicated to the fight against discrimination within the NHS, as the health service moves forward after the pandemic.
  As a motion on “dismantling inequalities” during the recovery put it: “The NHS has an urgent and compelling duty to eliminate the stark inequalities that affect staff with protected characteristics – inequalities that were not caused by COVID but which have been magnified and exacerbate
  
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