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• Blog: Taking our cost of living campaign to a wider audience

  11-10-2022 13:09
  Last week, we launched the latest phase of our cost of living crisis campaign, Together We Rise. Turning outwards to the wider public, we’re bringing the message home to as many people as possible, that poverty is a choice made by the powerful.
  You might have seen one of our poster billboards, shared some of our campaign graphics or our video on social media – or even encouraged one of your friends or colleagues to sign our petition calling on the prime minis
  
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• Unless wages rise in social care, the sector’s problems will never be fixed, says UNISON 

  11-10-2022 10:30
  Commenting on reports from Skills for Care and the Health Foundation published today (Tuesday) that low rates of pay are at the heart of problems in the social care sector, UNISON general secretary Christina McAnea said:
  “Put simply, wages are much too low. The social care sector won’t get back on its feet and deliver the support needed by millions if it can’t pay the rates needed to attract, keep and promote experienced care workers.
  “This is a govern
  
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• Let’s rise up in Westminster on 2 November – in UNISON

  11-10-2022 10:13
  UNISON is urging activists and members to lobby their MPs next month as part of the Together We Rise campaign.
  Working with the TUC and other unions, UNISON is organising a lobby of the Westminster parliament on Wednesday 2 November, between 2-6pm.
  This will be an opportunity for members to meet their MPs and tell them about the reality of the cost of living crisis.
  Where relevant, it will also be an important opportunity to speak with MPs about current pay disputes and ballots in higher educati
  
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