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• Tell the chancellor you’re #ForOurServices

  19-10-2021 16:58
  
  In just seven days’ time, on 27 October, chancellor Rishi Sunak will deliver the autumn budget and provide details of the government’s spending priorities for the next three years.
  After last year’s single-year settlement, where the government announced a pay freeze for most public services, he can’t be allowed to do the same again.
  Now is the time to act and send a clear message that we need proper, sustained investment in public services and a clear end to the pay freez
  
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• Retired members: Don’t make older people pay for the pandemic

  19-10-2021 15:30
  
  Last week saw the first UNISON retired member’s conference in two years. The event, held virtually, showed retired members’ continued support for trade union ideals and the aims of UNISON.
  With 280 members registered to take part, it also highlighted their determination that their voice be heard.
  The last 18 months have been an ordeal for many older people and the conference agenda reflected this.
  Conference heard how the high numbers of deaths among care home residents provided a da
  
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• The real impact of online learning

  19-10-2021 14:59
  
  Since the start of the first lockdown, schools, colleges and universities have had to rapidly shift to delivering online learning. Whilst the headlines were dominated by undergraduates unhappy at paying tuition fees for online degrees, or stressed parents trying to juggle home-schooling with work, college learners were overlooked.
  Colleges serve a diverse range of learners – adults completing work-based training, apprentices on day release, full-timers completing vocational and academic pr
  
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• Five ways of taking part in COP26

  19-10-2021 13:41
  
  The UN will host the 26th Climate Conference from 31 October to 12 November in Glasgow, with over 198 countries taking part. World leaders will make key decisions on how countries will commit to tackle the climate emergency.
  Trade unions will also take part as ‘observers’ and use their collective voice to influence decisions, put forward demands for a ‘just transition’ to a low-carbon economy and hold governments to account.
  UNISON is working hard to promote public servic
  
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• Blog: Why we should all take the menopause seriously

  19-10-2021 13:01
  
  Yesterday was World Menopause Day, a date that’s been designated for 10 years by the World Health Organisation and the International Menopause Society as a day to raise awareness of the menopause.
  It’s important for UNISON, not only because we are the UK’s largest women’s organisation with over one million female members, but because women make up just over half of the UK’s workforce.
  The menopause is an occupational health issue, an equality issue, and therefore a
  
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• Hundreds of school staff march on Downing Street to save nursery schools

  19-10-2021 01:01
  
  Around 150 representatives from maintained nursery schools in England will gather in London’s Parliament Square today (Tuesday), alongside parents, campaigners and MPs, before marching to Downing Street to deliver a petition to the chancellor, calling on him to ‘take urgent action’ over funding.
  The petition has been signed by 1,400 school leaders, staff and educators from almost every maintained nursery school (MNS) in the country. MNS are funded and controlled by local author
  
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