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• Care staff announce strikes over fire and rehire plans

  17-06-2022 10:14
  
  Care workers, registered nurses and residential home staff employed by Bristol-based care company St Monica Trust have announced a series of strike dates over threats to sack them unless they accept a pay cut, says UNISON today (Friday). ​
  More than 100 staff at four care homes across the south ​west of England were told in March that they must accept inferior new contracts – costing them thousands of pounds a year and watering down their sick pay – or be fired, says
  
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• Frontline health workers vote ‘yes’ to strike action at sites across Lancashire

  17-06-2022 09:26
  Health workers employed by private company OCS at Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Trust have voted overwhelmingly in favour of taking strike action, says UNISON today (Friday).
  The 50 staff, including porters, caterers and cleaners, work for the healthcare facilities firm at eight NHS sites across Lancashire. They are asking for the same sick pay and annual holiday as staff directly employed by the NHS.
  The workers are employed at hospitals, mental health units and clinics in Blackburn, Black
  
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• University of Leeds members prepare to strike again

  17-06-2022 01:19
  
  The University of Leeds branch is taking further strike action over the 2021-22 pay round, next week, on 20-24 June.
  Members have lost 20% of their pay against inflation over 12 years. They have used the pay calculator to show just how many thousands of pounds staff are being cheated in their pay.
  The union argues that staff are working all November and December “for free” against what they would have been earning had pay kept pace with inflation over that period.
  The sector as a who
  
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• Leeds university members prepare to strike again

  17-06-2022 01:19
  
  The University of Leeds branch is taking further strike action over the 2021-22 pay round and the detrimental changes to the USS pension scheme, next week, on 20-24 June.
  Members have lost 20% of their pay against inflation over 12 years. They have used the pay calculator and other calculations to show just how many thousands staff are being cheated in their pay, but also in their pensions.
  The union argues that staff are working all November and December “for free” against what they
  
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