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• Blog: The Living Wage increase – still a long way to go on fair pay

  16-11-2021 16:08
  
  Living Wage Week is the annual celebration of the Living Wage movement. It’s always a good time for us to take stock, as UNISON has a long history of campaigning for a fair day’s pay for a fair day’s (or night’s) work, to prevent in-work poverty and exploitative low wages.
  This week, the new Living Wage rates were announced. This means a pay increase for about 300,000 working people – up 40p to £9.90 across the UK, and £11.05 in London.
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• Above-inflation pay rise is key to nurse numbers

  16-11-2021 03:47
  
  Commenting on the mid-year registration data released today (Tuesday) by the Nursing and Midwifery Council, UNISON national nursing officer Stuart Tuckwood said:
  “The substantial rise in the number of nurses and midwives leaving since last year is worrying.
  “It’s likely many feel unable to cope with the current pressures and neither feel valued by the government nor their employers. Pay must rise ahead of inflation to persuade staff to stay and new applicants to join.
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