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• Miserly government NHS pay proposal won’t clear the backlog or help patients, says UNISON    

  23-02-2022 17:55
  
  Commenting on the government’s submission today (Wednesday) to the NHS pay review body recommending a ​maximum pay rise of 3% this year for health workers in England, UNISON head of health Sara Gorton said:
  “This tight-fisted proposal ​falls well short of rising costs and staff hopes​. It’s barely half the rate of inflation, which is far from peaking and won’t for many more months.
  ​“This will go down like a
  
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• Higher education delegates tackle equality and discrimination

  23-02-2022 14:38
  
  A number of motions in this week’s higher education (HE) national conference addressed discrimination in the sector, against both Black and trans individuals.
  Among them, Black Lives Matter – a higher education trade union programme of action, noted how the movement that grew out of international outrage following the murder of George Floyd in the US was continuing to challenge racism within modern society, in all its forms.
  Introducing the motion, Nicole Garnier of the HE service gr
  
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