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• UNISON’s response to Labour’s new Green Prosperity Plan

  21-06-2023 14:23
  
  The Labour party announced their new Green Prosperity Plan in a speech by leader of the party, Sir Kier Starmer, in Edinburgh on Monday.
  Outlining the key elements of the party’s plan, the Labour leader called it “the race of a lifetime,” and added “the prize is real.”
  The plan aims to make the UK a global green leader through a just transition to net zero. Sir Kier added: “We’re going to throw everything at this: planning reform, procurement, long-
  
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• Inflation failures strengthen case for general election, says UNISON

  21-06-2023 10:55
  
  Commenting on the latest UK inflation figures announced today (Wednesday), UNISON assistant general secretary Jon Richards said:
  “Higher prices, soaring rents and sky-high mortgages are a living nightmare.
  “Government ministers don’t have a clue about the financial worries of most people. The prime minister and chancellor look content to sit back and watch while families lose their homes or can no longer pay their rents.
  “The case for an election grows stronger by th
  
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• The social care crisis is worsening by the minute, says UNISON

  21-06-2023 01:01
  
  Commenting on the report from the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (Adass) that suggests most councils in England aren’t confident they can offer the legal minimum of social care support next year, UNISON head of social care Gavin Edwards said today (Wednesday): “The social care crisis is worsening by the minute. 
  “Care workers are overworked, underpaid and struggling to plug the gaps in a sector desperately short of staf
  
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