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• Winter fuel grant opens 25 January

  17-01-2023 14:28
  UNISON Welfare’s annual winter Fuel grant programme opens on Wednesday 25 January at 10am.
  The programme offers a one-off, non-repayable grant of £200 to help UNIONS’s most vulnerable low-income members and to help ease the worry of paying for their next fuel bill during the coldest months of the year.
  UNISON understands the financial hardship many members are facing – struggling to make ends meet, particularly with RPI inflation still running at 14% as of
  
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• Staff with expert view of NHS crisis to strike over pay and staffing

  17-01-2023 11:12
  Several hundred staff working for the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) are taking strike action today (Tuesday) over pay and staffing, says their union UNISON.
  The strike will be followed by four days when the NICE employees, who belong to UNISON and are based in Manchester and London, will work to rule.
  This means the staff, who advise the NHS on the best drugs and treatments available for patients, will only work the hours set out in their contracts and refuse any overt
  
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