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‘We will continue to stand with striking workers’

08-07-2022 17:47

UNISON’s National Labour Link Forum was held today in York – the first in-person event in three years as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
In her opening remarks, Linda Hobson, chair of the national Labour Link committee, reminded the forum: “Boris Johnson, after disgracing the country as our prime minister has resigned, but he’s still here, clinging on. Even his party want him gone.
“But we should never forget that they were defending him to the hilt only a few

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Ministers must act now as Covid infection rates rise

08-07-2022 16:44

Responding to the release of Office for National Statistics data showing a sharp increase in Covid infection rates, UNISON general secretary Christina McAnea said today (Friday):
“Infection rates are rising at an alarming rate. The fact the virus is spreading so quickly during the warmer months should set off alarm bells across the government.
“Simply wishing Covid away is dangerous. If we don’t begin to prepare now for the inevitable winter wave, staff

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HSGE will reconvene if NHS pay outcome is delayed

08-07-2022 16:06

In the light of the current political chaos, UNISON’s health service group executive has agreed to step up calls for the Westminster government to release its decision on NHS pay and publish the PRB report. The committee will reconvene later in July to decide how to respond to either a pay outcome or further delay. If the report has not been published by the start of Parliamentary recess (21st July) health members will be left facing the escalating cost of living crisis with no pay rise in

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Government chaos must not cause further delays on NHS pay

08-07-2022 14:19

Ministers must act without delay to give the long-overdue wage rise that NHS staff deserve, says UNISON.
Distractions of the government’s own making are no reason to hold back the desperately needed pay increase for health workers that is already three months late, the union says.
The above-inflation pay rise demanded by unions to protect patient services should be at the top of new health secretary Stephen Barclay’s in-tray, says UNISON.
Health workers are struggling to pay their bi

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