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• How to build a better bank contract – June 2023

  31-05-2023 16:20 via unison.org.uk
  
  The 2023 pay round has highlighted some campaigning, organising and bargaining opportunities around bank contracts. This guidance is aimed at UNISON branches and organisers to help them have informed conversations with members who work on an NHS-operated bank as their primary contract (rather than those employed via NHS Professionals or a private agency). It covers ideas to improve these terms and how to build a 5-step plan to win.
  Some NHS employers make substantive staff work on a bank contrac
  
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• EA workers renew strike mandate

  31-05-2023 15:52 via unison.org.uk
  
  UNISON has announced that Environment Agency members have secured a mandate for strike action over the next six months after the recent industrial action ballot.
  The new mandate marks a continuation of the dispute, begun last year, where EA members voted for strike action over pay for the first time in the agency’s history.
  Donna Rowe-Merriman, national secretary for the sector, said: “Workers have endured over a decade of pay erosion where the value of their pay has reduced by over
  
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• The numbers behind council and school pay

  31-05-2023 12:14 via unison.org.uk
  
  UNISON has been campaigning for a decent pay rise for council and school workers, calling for a pay increase of inflation plus 2% – based on the Treasury’s annual forecast for RPI for 2023, this amounted to 12.7% at the time of the pay claim.
  However, the local government employers have responded with an offer of a flat rate increase of £1,925 (with less for part-time and term-time workers)
  So, what does that mean for council and schools workers?
  Tap through the stats below to
  
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• Care workers in Wales win 15% increase and Foundation Living Wage

  31-05-2023 10:46 via unison.org.uk
  
  After months of campaigning, support workers in Wales have secured a 15% pay increase and the Foundation Living Wage.
  In April 2022, the Welsh Government made £48m available to social care providers to fund an uplift to the Foundation Living Wage for registered care workers in Wales, which is now £10.90.
  However, months went by and carers working for Integra Community Living Options did not see any extra money in their pay packets. Union members approached the Cardiff County UNISON B
  
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