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Social carers in Liverpool secure living wage

28-04-2023 17:29

UNISON North West has secured the Foundation Living Wage for all care workers commissioned by Liverpool Council. The wage increase will come into place in April 2024.
UNISON’s Stand Up for Social Care campaign began when the union conducted research to see which councils were paying carers above the living wage.
After securing the living wage for carers across the greater Manchester area, increasing pay for around 25,000 carers, the union’s organisers set their sights on Mersey

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Care workers in Liverpool secure living wage

28-04-2023 17:29

UNISON North West has secured the Foundation Living Wage for all care workers commissioned by Liverpool Council. The wage increase will come into place in April 2024.
UNISON’s Stand Up for Social Care campaign began when the union conducted research to see which councils were paying carers above the living wage.
After securing the living wage for carers across the greater Manchester area, increasing pay for around 25,000 carers, the union’s organisers set their sights on Mersey

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Joint UNISON, GMB and Unite statement on the outcome of their complaint against the NEU

28-04-2023 16:36

In late 2022, having failed to reach an agreement informally, UNISON, along with the GMB and Unite unions submitted a formal complaint to the TUC about the NEU’s organising activities and recruitment of school support staff.
The complaint alleged that the NEU had actively sought to recruit school support staff and had intervened in pay negotiations (known as the NJC) between the three recognised unions and the local government employers.
This undermined a previous agreement between all fou

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England’s largest academy trust withholding back pay from staff, says UNISON

28-04-2023 01:11

United Learning Trust (ULT) – England’s largest school academy chain – is withholding £1.5m in back pay from employees, says UNISON today (Friday).
The union has now launched a grievance on behalf of more than 3,000 support staff across the country against ULT, which runs 70 schools with more than 40,000 pupils.
UNISON is seeking up to £800 for each worker including teaching assistants, librarians and school technicians. This is the amount the union s

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