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• Only direct talks will end NHS dispute, says UNISON

  15-12-2022 16:47
  Commenting on suggestions that the NHS pay review body may be reconvened in response to strikes by health workers over their wages, UNISON head of health Sara Gorton said today (Thursday):
  “There’s no need to start another long-winded evidence round. A wage boost is needed now, not months down the line.
  “The last two of the pay review body’s recommendations sat on ministerial desks for months.
  “Health workers won’t have any confidence in a repeat of the p
  
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• Pensioners Convention extends solidarity to UNISON members

  15-12-2022 16:42
  UNISON members taking industrial action this month have today received a message of solidarity from the National Pensioners Convention (NPC).
  In a letter addressed to Christina McAnea, NPC general secretary Jan Shortt said that, as older people, convention members were “much more aware of the cuts and staff losses to services that they rely on in their later years to help them cope with what are sometimes complex health conditions”.
  Ms Shortt noted that the NPC was “also gratef
  
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• UNISON seeks urgent meeting with environment secretary

  15-12-2022 13:57
  UNISON is seeking an urgent meeting with environment secretary Thérèse Coffey, to discuss the “insulting” pay offer to its members working in the Environment Agency (EA).
  A letter from general secretary Christina McAnea describes the current offer as “poor compared to much of the public sector”. EA workers are in a worse position than some other public sector workers as pay was frozen the previous year for the majority of staff.
  “The response from our
  
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