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UNISON urges better protection for domestic abuse victims

20-02-2023 18:27

Pictured above: the North West regional women’s committee, domestic abuse group. Back row (l to r): Jessica Aitchison, Dawn Warriner, Christine Collins, Teresa Connally. Front row (l to r): Rachel Wright, Paula Craig and Lesley Lancelott.
One third of women report domestic abuse at some point in their lives. With almost 80% of UNISON’s 1.3 million women identifying as women, domestic abuse is most definitely a trade union issue, delegates at the annual women’s conference heard

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‘Stop ghosting us on pay’, say UNISON Eastern

20-02-2023 17:28

UNISON has announced that over 12,000 staff at ambulance services and NHS trusts in England will be joining the ongoing NHS pay dispute after a re-ballot.
Members at four ambulance services and five NHS trusts have voted to take industrial action, in a significant escalation of the dispute, after having fallen just short of the industrial action threshold in the first instance.
One of the services which was re-balloted and has now passed the legal threshold to take industrial action was East of

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NHS staff across Northern Ireland take third day of action in strike over pay

20-02-2023 17:00

Health and social service workers across Northern Ireland are staging a third 24-hour walkout tomorrow in the ongoing dispute about pay and staffing, says UNISON today (Monday).
Nurses, ambulance staff, healthcare assistants, homecare workers, porters and staff in other NHS roles will be on picket lines and joining marches to five rallies taking place across Northern Ireland tomorrow.
NHS and care staff in Northern Ireland have so far staged a one-day strike in December and another las

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Women’s equality at risk of being put back 25 years by the pandemic

20-02-2023 13:59

More than 50 years after the Equal Pay Act was passed, women at work and in retirement continue to face widespread discrimination – and the situation has worsened since the pandemic, UNISON’s annual women’s conference heard last week.
According to the Office of National Statistics, the gender pay gap currently stands at 15% for full-time workers and is much wider when employed part-time, as most women are.
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Proposing a motion ‘gender pay justice for women wor

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