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• Cementing the legacy of the Year of Black Workers

  19-06-2024 17:52
  
  Images: Marcus Rose
  Debate continued Wednesday morning at national delegate conference with a group of motions concerning Black members.
  The motions came on the same morning as the High Court ruling that the government’s decision to scrap key recommendations from the independent review into the Windrush scandal was unlawful.
  The first motion, supporting Black members experiencing racism, focused on training and education as an effective way to combat racism.
  Moving the motion, Anette Heslo
  
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• Celebrating Pride, rainbow lanyards and pronouns

  19-06-2024 17:38
  
  Munroe Bergdorf, LGBT+ activist, model, writer and broadcaster addressed UNISON’s national delegate conference on Tuesday afternoon, wishing delegates a “Happy Pride Month”. Pride is, by its definition a protest … a push back against shame, she told them.
  “It is the remembering and the learning from history.
  “As far as we’ve come … we’re now facing a highly funded, concerted and sustained conservative [campaign] to force us back into shame.
  
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• Conference hears the promise of a national care service

  19-06-2024 15:36
  
  Images: Marcus Rose
  Just days after Labour included a pledge in its general election manifesto to build a national care service, UNISON conference debated a composite motion on the subject.
  Moving the motion this morning, Jordan Rivera of the NEC (pictured below) said: “As an NHS occupational therapist working in an elderly care ward, I see patients staying in hospital on a daily basis, because they can’t get care,” adding that, every day longer they spend in hospital, they are
  
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• ‘Our members need a Labour government’

  19-06-2024 14:57
  
  Images: Marcus Rose
  Spirits were high at UNISON’s national delegate conference in Brighton this morning as general secretary Christina McAnea delivered an invigorating speech to delegates. It focussed on the union’s power to defeat the Tories in the upcoming general election on 4 July.
  Ms McAnea praised the union’s tenacity in the face of successive Conservative governments, which she described as “hell-bent on curbing workers’ rights.
  “Over the last 14 years
  
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• Time to put an end to the chaos and cuts

  19-06-2024 13:52
  
  general Addressing UNISON’s annual conference in Brighton today (Wednesday), UNISON general secretary Christina McAnea said:
  “Everyone has suffered over the past 14 years of Tory chaos and cuts.
  “The UK’s had a revolving door of clueless prime ministers and Cabinet members who’ve made political choices that exacerbated the cost-of-living crisis and allowed living standards to plummet.
  “Social care is beyond broken. Its shortcomings are having an appalling
  
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• Campaign this weekend for the New Deal for Working People

  19-06-2024 13:35
  
  UNISON members will be joining other trade unionists across the country this weekend, taking to the streets to campaign for Labour’s New Deal for Working People, a key offer of the party’s general election manifesto.
  The New Deal is a comprehensive plan to improve the lives of working people by strengthening individual and collective rights – benefitting public service workers across the UK.
  It is the culmination of years of joint work between the party and its affiliated
  
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• Delegates pledge to challenge exploitation of migrant workers

  19-06-2024 11:46
  
  On the first day of UNISON’s national delegate conference, delegates debated the need to challenge the exploitation of migrant workers, particularly in social care.
  Paramedic Glen Carrington, from the NEC, said that, as an immigrant himself, being seen as ‘inferior’ was deeply unpleasant.
  Mr Carrington described how, earlier this year, he was called to a care home a number of times and each time, saw a nurse, “dead on her feet”. The third time, he asked if she hadn&
  
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• High Court rules government’s Windrush failings are unlawful

  19-06-2024 11:30
  
  The government’s decision to scrap key recommendations from the independent review into the Windrush scandal was unlawful, the High Court has ruled today (Wednesday), says UNISON.
  The court found Suella Braverman was “not justified” in breaking promises to create a migrants’ commissioner and boost the powers of the chief inspector for borders and immigration.
  Both recommendations had come out of the Windrush Learned Lessons Review – overseen by Wendy Williams.&
  
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