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• UNISON at 30 – celebrate good times, come on!

  03-07-2023 16:30
  
  Thirty years ago this month, UNISON was born from the merger of three unions: Confederation of Health Service Employees (COHSE), National Union of Public Employees (NUPE) and National and Local Government Officers’ Association (NALGO).
  Today UNISON is the biggest trade union in the UK with more than 1.3 million members, over two thirds of whom are women.
  Numbers matter because numbers bring power – as we illustrated some years ago in our first TV advert. UNISON was the first trade un
  
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• Cutting migrant staff without a proper plan to fix care is beyond foolish, says UNISON

  03-07-2023 13:02
  
  Commenting on proposals by the New Conservatives group of MPs that would reduce drastically the number of visas for overseas care workers, UNISON general secretary Christina McAnea said today (Monday):
  “The care system is on its knees, as any family trying to secure decent care for a relative is only too aware.
  “The government has done nothing to solve the growing crisis in care. Now a group of its MPs want ministers to make things a whole lot worse.
  “Thankfully Numbe
  
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• Fighting to protect workers’ rights

  03-07-2023 12:26
  
  UNISON is urging MPs to speak out and oppose the Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill when it gets its second reading later today.
  UNISON is deeply concerned by the Bill, which is intended to prevent public bodies from “being influenced in their procurement or investment decisions by political or moral disapproval of the conduct or policy of a government or any other public authority in a foreign territory”.
  The union is particularly concerned that the Bill woul
  
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