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• Welsh government NHS pay move ramps up the pressure on the PM, says UNISON

  03-02-2023 17:45
  
  Commenting on the pay offer today (Friday) from the Welsh government offering NHS workers an additional 3% this year, UNISON head of health Sara Gorton said:
  “This ramps up the pressure on the prime minister significantly. Political leaders in Scotland and now in Wales are making the Westminster government look decidedly mean and totally out of touch.
  “Rishi Sunak says he’d love to give health workers a pay rise yet claims he can’t. But he can and he should. If he do
  
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• UK’s model for funding higher education is a ‘broken system’

  03-02-2023 15:11
  
  UNISON assistant general secretary Jon Richards opened the national higher education conference yesterday with a damning critique of the government’s approach towards university education, and of ministers who are out of touch with the crisis affecting so many of the country’s population.
  “We meet at yet another really difficult time in higher education,” Mr Richards, who was once the union’s head of education, told delegates. “We’ve had a continued fund
  
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• Universities need to ‘redouble their efforts’ to support disabled staff

  03-02-2023 14:54
  
  Higher education delegates in Newcastle voted yesterday to build on the success of UNISON’s Year of Disabled Workers 2022, and continue to work to improve the experience of disabled members.
  Sanchia Alasia of the national disabled members’ committee proposed a motion aimed at “securing the legacy” of the campaign’s achievements, “because disabled staff still face discrimination in our universities.”
  The union used the Year of Disabled Workers to highligh
  
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• Higher education conference debates ongoing pay dispute

  03-02-2023 12:54
  
  UNISON’s higher education activists met in Newcastle yesterday, for their first in-person conference since the onset of the pandemic. With workers experiencing “the worst cost of living crisis in 30 years”, pay was at the heart of their debates.
  Since 2009, pay for higher education (HE) staff has lost around 28% of its value, as a result of below inflation rises year on year. Soaring inflation in 2022 brought this situation to crisis point, leaving members in HE facing real har
  
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• Care Quality Commission staff balloted over strike action

  03-02-2023 10:59
  
  Staff at the Care Quality Commission (CQC) have begun voting for industrial action over pay, say unions today (Friday).
  Five unions – UNISON, PCS, Prospect, Royal College of Nursing (RCN) and Unite – are balloting workers who ​inspect, monitor and regulate hospitals, care homes, GP ​practices and dental surgeries, as well as ambulance and mental health services.
  The UNISON and PCS strike ballots began last month, and the others
  
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• Hospital staff in Liverpool are coming home

  03-02-2023 10:57
  
  Around 670 staff at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust will be brought back in-house on 1 April this year.
  Staff at two hospital sites, Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen, who work as cleaners, porters, caterers and in other domestic services will be transferred onto NHS terms and conditions once the outsourced contracts come to an end at the end of March.
  The move comes after a merger of hospital trusts in Liverpool in 2019, creating Liverpool University Hospitals NHS foundation tr
  
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