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• ​Proper action needed for Black workers in health and care

  09-06-2022 19:21
  
  Commenting on the publication today (Thursday) of a new report on racial inequality in health and social care by the Equality and Human Rights Commission, UNISON general secretary Christina McAnea said:
  “Black workers make a vital contribution to the health and care sector but are all too often at the bottom of the pay scale as care workers, porters, healthcare assistants and catering staff. They frequently face shocking discrimination, threatening their health, job security and life chanc
  
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• Care home fire and rehire threat will drive staff out of the sector

  09-06-2022 18:52
  
  Care workers, registered nurses and residential home staff employed by Bristol-based care company St Monica Trust are to strike after managers threatened them with the sack unless they accept a pay cut, says UNISON today (Saturday). ​
  More than 100 staff at four care homes across south ​west of England were issued with an ultimatum in March that unless they agree to a ​reduction in wages – costing them thousands of pounds a year and watering down their sick pay
  
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• UNISON wins major insourcing battle in Lanarkshire

  09-06-2022 18:08
  
  UNISON has won a major insourcing victory in Scotland, after NHS Lanarkshire announced that it will take over the contract for cleaning, catering, portering and security services at University Hospital Wishaw.
  The jobs of 400 workers – many held by traditionally low-paid, part-time women workers – will transfer from private contractor Serco to NHS Lanarkshire later this year. There will be no job losses.
  The Lanarkshire health branch of UNISON has been running a ‘PFI bleeds the
  
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