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• Delegates call for help to combat the epidemic of male suicide

  30-10-2022 18:46
  A busy afternoon at UNISON’s disabled members’ conference today was dominated by a harrowing debate on men and mental health yesterday, which heard testimony from delegates about their personal experiences of male friends or relatives who had taken their own lives.
  In 2020, 75% of those who took their own lives in the UK were male, with 4,880 men and boys ending their lives – equating to 12 deaths every day of the year.
  While people of all genders experience mental health probl
  
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• ‘We want workplaces to thrive – the Tories want to curtail unions’

  30-10-2022 17:36
  “We want our workplaces to thrive. A Tory government wants to curtail trade union action even more, claiming that they’re run by trade union ‘barons’ rather than the democratic processes we go through – and this from a government that is on its second unelected prime minister in two months.”
  Vicky Foxcroft, Labour’s shadow minister for disabled people, was addressing UNISON’s national disabled members’ conference in Brighton this afternoon, a
  
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• Hack-ney

  30-10-2022 17:18 via publiclibrariesnews.com
  EditorialA reasonably quiet week this week, with the only storm cloud being Hackney’s decision to cut £250k from its budget, resulting in protests.Changes by local authorityHackney – £250k cut from £5.6mNational news
  The latest Public Lending Right consultation is out to change the rate per loan for 2021/2022. https://t.co/qGDF13ayENThis was always going to be the big one, as the previous year CIPFA data is used to estimate total loans.
  The rate per loan is going fr
  
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• Disabled members look to the legacy of 2022

  30-10-2022 17:09
  The first plenary sessions of UNISON’s annual disabled members conference took place this morning, with the cost of living and securing a legacy for the unions’ Year of the Disabled Worker dominating proceedings.
  But it also saw member Paddy Toner presented with his award as this year’s winner of the union’s Local Service Champions Awards by general secretary Christina McAnea (pictured above).
  Mr Toner is a rehabilitation worker for the visually impaired at Halton Borough
  
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• General secretary urges members to ‘vote, vote, VOTE’ in NHS ballot

  30-10-2022 15:03
  “I’ve been speaking to our NHS workers – nurses, ambulance workers, hospital cleaners, who say the service is already on its knees, that’s it’s so bad, going on strike won’t actually make it worse, but will draw attention to it.”
  General secretary Christina McAnea was speaking at UNISON’s annual disabled conference in Brighton this morning, and was addressing the fears of health members over the damage that industrial action could do to the NHS.
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