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• Government gamble means working people are the losers, says UNISON

  18-10-2022 14:27
  Speaking to the annual Trades Union Congress in Brighton today (Tuesday), UNISON general secretary Christina McAnea said the time had come for the government to take responsibility for its actions, that working people were paying the price and that co-ordinated industrial action could help solve the pay crisis.
  “I was on a hospital picket line in Blackpool recently, early one morning in the wind and rain.
  “Most of the strikers were cleaners, catering staff or porters, who w
  
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• ‘Co-ordinated action unites us,’ McAnea tells TUC congress

  18-10-2022 14:27
  “Our purpose binds us – co-ordinated action unites us.” That was the message at the heart of Christina McAnea’s speech to the TUC’s annual congress in Brighton today, as she moved a successful UNISON motion on Higher pay to tackle the cost of living crisis.
  The general secretary had opened by telling delegates that she had been on a picket line recently in Blackpool. It was “early one morning, in the wind and the rain …
  “I was talking to our UNIS
  
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• Blog: The menopause really is a workplace issue

  18-10-2022 12:37
  Today, along with the rest of the world, UNISON marks World Menopause Day. As a union of a million women in public services, we are no longer prepared to shy away from talking about the menopause and the impact it has on just over half of the UK workforce.
  What starts as forgetting silly things – going to the supermarket for milk and bananas and coming home with toilet rolls and potatoes, then the feeling of having a heater in your core that ends with a trickle of sweat rolling down the si
  
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• Food Standards Agency strike ballot could mean Christmas meat shortages, says UNISON

  18-10-2022 12:25
  Staff at the Food Standards Agency (FSA) are being balloted for strike action that could affect meat supplies during the festive season, says UNISON today (Tuesday).
  The dispute involving several hundred inspectors, vets, and office-based staff in England, Wales and Northern Ireland could bring the industry to a halt, according to the union.
  Earlier in the year, FSA staff voted to reject a pay offer of between 2% and 5%.
  UNISON says this is significantly lower than inflation
  
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