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• Black members’ conference confronts cost of living crisis

  24-01-2023 16:30
  
  Of the 24 motions passed at UNISON’s national Black members’ conference in Edinburgh at the weekend, four focused on ways to support Black workers during the cost of living crisis. 
  Introducing the second motion on the subject, Adejare Oyewole (pictured), from the national Black members’ committee, described how, as inflation continues to increase, Black members will face hardship.
  The motion declared: “The only way that our members, especially Black members, can sta
  
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• UNISON demands action on migrant worker health surcharge

  24-01-2023 16:24
  
  On the third day of UNISON’s national Black members’ conference, delegates passed several key motions in support of migrant rights. 
  One of the motions demanded that the government hold to its promise of reimbursing the immigration health surcharge (IHS) paid by migrant workers.
  The IHS is a health tax on migrants. It’s an extra payment that migrant workers and their families have to make to the NHS, in addition to paying their taxes.
  The surcharge was introduced in 2015 a
  
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• Strikes are serious in Yorkshire

  24-01-2023 15:22
  
  In the third day of strike action in the NHS, UNISON members working for the ambulance service at Rotherham Hospital in South Yorkshire took to the picket lines, while the union’s head of health, Sara Gorton, joined the picket at Wakefield, where she fielded questions from the media.
  Photographer Mark Pinder took his camera along. 
  The article Strikes are serious in Yorkshire first appeared on the UNISON National site.
  
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• Proud to be in a union – striking in the North West

  24-01-2023 11:17
  
  On a chilly day in the North West of England, UNISON members in the NHS continued their industrial action over pay and the crisis facing the health service. Steve Forrest captured a flavour of the third day of pickets.
  We start our look back at yesterday’s strike in the region at the Eccles Ambulance Station in Greater Manchester. 
  And on to Huyton Ambulance Station in Merseyside, where members were joined by UNISON president Andrea Egan.And then to the Liverpool Royal Hospital,
  
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• Blog: Why we must defend the right of working people to strike

  24-01-2023 10:16
  
  Thousands of UK workers are being forced to take industrial action to protect their pay, standard of living and the services they provide. But rather than helping workers live decent lives and improving the services that millions of people rely on every day, the Westminster government is turning its back on working people.
  Strikes are always a symptom of a problem. But the government’s answer is to fast-track new legislation that will add further restrictions on the right to strike in the
  
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• Government must show political will to mend broken social care system, says UNISON

  24-01-2023 01:01
  
  Commenting on a report published today (Tuesday) by the Archbishops’ Commission on Reimagining Care that calls for an overhaul of England’s care system, UNISON head of social care Gavin Edwards said:
  “A new radical approach for social care is long overdue. The current fragmented and privatised system is unfit to meet the needs of everyone who relies upon it.
  “What’s urgently required is a national care service that’s fully funded, pays staff a fair w
  
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