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• A gamble with pensioners’ lives: retired members confront the cost of living crisis

  17-10-2022 17:18
  UNISON’s retired members’ conference will be held in Telford this week, 18-19 October. The agenda includes several cost of living related motions specific to pensioners, from eating or heating to bus passes, prescription costs and state pensions.
  Recent statistics show that one in five pensioners – more than two million people – are already living in relative poverty in the UK. 
  Chair of UNISON’s national retired members’ committee Rosie MacGregor said: &
  
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• School staff face violent attacks from pupils, with some receiving death threats, new research finds 

  17-10-2022 17:09
  Teaching assistants have reported being kicked, punched and spat at by pupils in mainstream primary and secondary schools, according to new research released today (Monday).
  The analysis is the first to look at the violence and aggression faced by teaching and classroom assistants in England, Scotland and Wales. Extensive data already exists into pupil-on-pupil violence and aggression towards teachers and senior managers.
  University of Roehampton criminologist Dr Amanda Holt led the qualitative
  
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• Tories ‘cannot be trusted’, after screeching economic U-turn

  17-10-2022 16:48
  “A government that dumps virtually its entire economic slate in the space of a month simply cannot be trusted.”
  That was the verdict of UNISON general secretary Christina McAnea today, after the fourth Conservative chancellor this year performed a series of screeching U-turn on his predecessor’s catastrophic ‘mini-budget from just a few weeks ago.
  After Kwasi Kwarteng’s tax-cutting ‘fiscal event’ on 23 September triggered panic in the markets, with the p
  
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• Government can’t be trusted and must go, says UNISON

  17-10-2022 14:19
  Government can’t be trusted and must go, says UNISON
  Responding to emergency measures announced by the chancellor today (Monday), UNISON general secretary Christina McAnea said:
  “A government that dumps virtually its entire economic slate in the space of a month simply cannot be trusted.
  “Liz Truss promised again and again to shield people from rocketing energy bills, but even that help now lies in tatters. Struggling families will be aghast.
  “Threaten
  
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