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• Sandwell Leisure Trust employees take further strike action in row over contracts

  14-12-2021 13:46
  
  UNISON members from Sandwell branch took further strike action today, 14 December, in what is now the longest running industrial dispute in Sandwell’s history.
  Members from Portway Lifestyle Centre and Tipton Leisure Centre picketed outside their workplaces after voting by 85% on an 83% turnout to continue their fight against Sandwell Leisure Trust’s fire and rehire policy.
  In March 2021, Sandwell Leisure Trust fired and rehired all 280 staff in order to remove them from national pay
  
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• Sandwell leisure employees strike again in contracts row

  14-12-2021 13:46
  
  UNISON members from Sandwell branch took further strike action today, 14 December, in what is now the longest running industrial dispute in Sandwell’s history.
  Members from Portway Lifestyle Centre and Tipton Leisure Centre picketed outside their workplaces after voting by 85% on an 83% turnout to continue their fight against Sandwell Leisure Trust’s fire and rehire policy.
  In March 2021, Sandwell Leisure Trust fired and rehired all 280 staff in order to remove them from national pay
  
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• Blog: Government must treat health workers with respect

  14-12-2021 10:21
  
  Yesterday, we heard the sad news of the first death from the Omicron variant of COVID-19. And for the second Christmas in a row, we are relying on health workers to respond to the latest crisis in the pandemic.
  This time, they are under huge pressures to deliver a mammoth booster vaccine programme and are bracing themselves to care for another wave of hospital patients.
  The booster programme is vital to saving lives and helping to reduce the number of hospitalisations. It relies almost entirely
  
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