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Public want government to keep promises and give the NHS what it needs, poll shows
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Prime Minister should focus on the NHS, not demonise those too sick to work
via unison.org.ukCommenting on the Prime Minister’s proposals on welfare reform today (Friday), UNISON general secretary Christina McAnea said:
“The Prime Minister has promised and failed to cut NHS waiting lists.“Worse still, his government has damaged the public services people were once able to rely upon to get better and stay healthy.
“Lengthy waits for NHS operations and treatment have left people languishing at home, too sick or injured to work. That’s a personal tragedy for t -
NEC hears of another Supreme Court win for UNISON
via unison.org.ukUNISON’s national executive council, meeting yesterday, heard that the union had just won the case of Fiona Mercer in the Supreme Court. General secretary Christina McAnea said that it means that, “today, the court has agreed that the (UK) law is incompatible with international law, because it does not protect workers from ongoing victimisation by employers if they have taken legal industrial action”.
The case had been won in the employment appeal tribunal, but the then busines -
Supreme Court judgment stops bad bosses from punishing striking workers
via unison.org.ukJudges have told employers they’ll no longer be able to discipline their staff for taking part in legal strike action in a UK Supreme Court ruling today (Wednesday), says UNISON.
The union, which took the case on behalf of care worker Fiona Mercer, says the government must now act quickly to change the law and ensure no other employees are treated unfairly.
Today’s judgment follows a two-day hearing in December. UNISON took the case to the Supreme Court to overturn an earlier Co -
Libraries turning into drug-infested sex dens
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wow is this true pic.twitter.com/vPA0sv5aZa— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) April 11, 2024
In a shocking expose from the ever-balanced and fair Fox News, we discover that American public libraries are drug-infested sex dens. This must come as something of a surprise to their users. Also, to their library staff too, it seems, as many have taken to Twitter to ask where these libraries are (including, suspiciously, wanting their precise addresses, presumably for private research -
Pay is key to persuading staff to stay in the NHS
via unison.org.ukCommenting on new analysis analysis by researchers at the University of Bath published today (Thursday) showing the extent to which NHS are looking for work outside the health service, UNISON head of health Helga Pile said:
“When some NHS workers are earning just a penny more than the minimum wage, it’s little wonder many don’t feel like staying.
“Supermarkets are paying higher rates and can offer staff discounts and much less stressful jobs.
“But a p -
Why insourcing isn’t always a win
via unison.org.ukOn the final day of UNISON’s health conference, delegates heard a series of debates on defending the NHS against privatisation.
Tam Hiddleston for the service group executive warned that, while “we invariably think of insourcing as a positive,” some insourcing “is about private operators being brought into the NHS.”
UNISON needs to be very careful to monitor “any wider implications for Agenda for Change pay and conditions,” he continued.
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Delegates support calls on wellbeing and health and safety
via unison.org.ukDelegates to UNISON’s health conference debated a series of motions under the collective heading of health, safety and wellbeing, on Monday and Tuesday afternoons.
“Let’s commit to fostering a workplace where every woman feels valued,” said Susan Parkinson (pictured above).
Moving a motion on women’s mental health at work for the national women’s committee, she explained that women experience higher levels of mental health problems than men.
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Let more NHS staff work flexibly to help solve staffing crisis
via unison.org.ukNHS managers should do more to allow staff to work in flexible ways, including having more control over shift patterns or doing compressed hours*, says UNISON today (Wednesday).
Data from a new UNISON survey** shows a significant proportion of healthcare workers are not being given the alternative work patterns they’ve asked for.
The survey found two-thirds (65%) of women employed in healthcare across the UK who’ve asked for different work arrangements had their requests&nb -
Health conference: Divided we fall
via unison.org.ukThe debate on Agenda for Change pay merged into terms and conditions as business continued into the afternoon at health conference in Brighton.
Paying to work
First up were a group of motions that explored the various ways in which health workers are losing out financially in the course of their work. This included paying for their own uniforms, DBS checks, paying for hospital parking – with one delegate even saying her employer asked for staff to pay for their key-fobs.
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Health: ‘The government treats us like April fools’ on pay
via unison.org.ukBusiness at health conference turned to pay on Tuesday morning.
First, conference discussed an emergency motion on NHS pay 2024-25. The motion pointed out that once again, the government has failed to conduct annual pay reviews in a timely fashion.
Moving the motion, James Anthony of the SGE said: “Like clockwork, in April, everything goes up. Bills council tax, everything. Except, like clockwork, NHS pay.
“Once again the government treats us like April fools.”
He highlighted t -
Health workers deserve better than this government
via unison.org.ukSpeaking to delegates gathered at UNISON’s annual health conference in Brighton today (Tuesday), UNISON general secretary Christina McAnea said:
“The government’s promised but not delivered on the NHS. Its legacy will be crumbling hospital estates, outdated equipment, appalling waiting lists and NHS staff at their wits’ ends.
“Investment’s been drained for 14 years, capacity’s tumbling and workforce stress is ratcheting up.
“It’s no -
Opinion: Every day, UNISON is fighting for our NHS
via unison.org.ukI’ve just delivered my speech to UNISON’s health members at their annual gathering in Brighton. I spoke about the immense pressures on NHS staff – caring for more patients, with fewer staff, in less time. But I also spoke about the support UNISON gives them to find their voice and help drive through the campaigns that matter most to them.
It’s always important for me to remind our members that UNISON is standing by them, backing them up and fighting their corner. That&rsq -
Blog: This is what neglecting our NHS looks like
via unison.org.ukI’ve just delivered my speech to UNISON’s health members at their annual gathering in Brighton. I spoke about the immense pressures on NHS staff – caring for more patients, with fewer staff, in less time. But I also spoke about the support UNISON gives them to find their voice and help drive through the campaigns that matter most to them.
It’s always important for me to remind our members that UNISON is standing by them, backing them up and fighting their corner. That&rsq -
Christina McAnea leads applause for successful UNISON strikers
via unison.org.ukThere’s power in the union – particularly if that union is UNISON. That was the message at the heart of a speech this morning from general secretary Christina McAnea to UNISON’s national health service group conference in Brighton.
“Look at all you’ve achieved in the past 12 months”, she told delegates.
“Forty-two re-banding deals done across England and Scotland in our Pay Fair for Patient Care campaign. £70 million in back pay – a -
Conference stands with Palestinian health workers
via unison.org.ukHealth conference reopened in Brighton yesterday afternoon with a speech from campaigns and advocacy advisor for Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP), Richard Pyle (pictured, below).
Detailing the harrowing situation on the ground in Gaza, he opened saying: “2024 marks 40 years since the founding of MAP – we had hoped to celebrate the organisation’s achievements.”
Instead, the organisation is responding to one of the gravest situations Palestinians have ever faced.
He told -
A new deal for health staff
via unison.org.ukTuesday afternoon at health conference saw a group of motions on professional and occupational issues.
Top on the agenda was a motion calling for ‘A new deal for healthcare assistants’. It called on the health SGE to continue to build on the work of the highly successful Pay Fair for Patient Care campaign.
The campaign focusses on winning significant sums of pack pay for members by fighting for rebanding for healthcare assistants (HCAs) at a local level.
The motion, moved by Annette -
Health workers in South West celebrate double lump-sum victory
via unison.org.ukHundreds of hospital workers in the South West are celebrating victory after NHS and Sodexo respectively committed to paying the lump sum bonuses due to them.
The one-off payment, part of a deal agreed for all staff on NHS contracts and Agenda for Change, is worth at least £1,655 for full-time health workers.
Wiltshire
Staff at Wiltshire’s six community hospitals had taken two days of strike action (pictured above) over the company’s previous refusal to honour the payment, -
Barriers for disabled staff in the health service need to be lowered
via unison.org.ukAnnette Heslop (pictured above) for the nursing and midwifery occupational group moved a motion on ensuring reasonable adjustments for healthcare students on clinical placements.
Equality law gives disabled workers the right to reasonable adjustments where they experience substantial disadvantage. However, as students are not classed as employees, some struggle on clinical placements to access reasonable adjustments.
Ms Heslop said that, in such a situation, it was no surprise that students drop -
UNISON will continue to strengthen the Race for Equality campaign
via unison.org.ukIn a motion on equipping branches to tackle race discrimination in the NHS, the health service group executive stressed that UNISON is continuing to strengthen its Race for Equality campaign that was a centrepiece to the union’s Year of Black Workers in 2023.
Maria Alberts for the service group executive told delegates: “Racism does exist in the NHS”.
She cited Too Hot to Handle, a report that “shines a light” on the lack of safe and effective means to report and th -
LGBT+ equality is top priority at health conference
via unison.org.ukThe opening debates at UNISON’s health service group conference, which began this morning in Brighton, emphasised the union’s equalities work.
In the conference’s opening motion, the national LGBT+ committee addressed the Year of LGBT+ Workers and its importance in embedding LGBT+ equality in health.
Moving the motion for the committee, Adam Williams (pictured above) took the opportunity to stress the great work that has been done by the union on LGBT+ equality, but pointing ou -
UNISON health conference opens in Brighton
via unison.org.ukUNISON’s annual national health service group conference opened in Brighton this morning, with union president Libby Nolan (pictured above) saying that it had been a “really tough year for us…We say that every year, don’t we?”
Sending “solidarity” to ambulance workers, she noted that, as ambulances queue outside A&E departments, unable to hand over patients to hospitals because of waiting times, they are bearing the brunt of the crisis in the NHS.
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NHS staff have been shown porn and offered money for sex at work
via unison.org.ukNHS staff including ambulance workers,111 call handlers, porters, nurses and cleaners have been shown pornographic images, offered money for sex and assaulted at work, according to research published by UNISON today (Monday).
In a survey released to coincide with the first day of UNISON’s annual health conference in Brighton, one in ten (10%) healthcare workers reported experiences of sexual harassment.
This included being touched or kissed, demands for sex in return for favours and d -
Thank you Aunty Hilary
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A quiet week this week, and all the better for it, really. Whether this is because things naturally go quiet over Easter or because I was internet-free for a week while on a cruise I can’t say. Probably a mixture of the two. So, let me know if I have missed anything via emailing me ([email protected]) or getting me via Twitter @publiclibnews. I’ve also just relaunched the Public Libraries News Facebook page to cover the stranger and more humorous stories in the sector -
Mental health absences adding to NHS staffing crisis
via unison.org.ukNHS staffMore than three in ten (31%) NHS employees have had to take time off work with mental health issues in the past year, according to a UNISON survey published today (Sunday).
As the staffing crisis in the health service continues, the union says the findings – based on more than 12,000 health workers across the UK – show the effects of burnout among employees and mean many more could quit altogether.
Panic attacks, high blood pressure, chest pains and headaches are among physi -
Pay rise for thousands of NHS staff already overdue
via unison.org.ukThe government has let down hundreds of thousands of “demoralised” NHS staff after yet again failing to honour the due date for their annual pay increase, says UNISON today (Friday).
The union has written to health secretary Victoria Atkins to say government delays are to blame for workers not receiving their 2024/25 wage rise, which was due on Easter Monday.
With the cost-of-living crisis far from over, the government’s silence on NHS pay means health staff remain in the dark -
The meaning of LIF
EditorialThere’s a lot of good news for various library services in England this week, with the announcement of the third round of the Libraries Improvement Fund. 43 library services received a share of £10.5m funding with £245,417 being the average amount given, ranging from £499,999 for Camden to a humble £50,000 for Bradford.Looking at what the money is being spent on – well, let’s say makers of moveable shelving units are celebrating as are the norma -
Opinion: Thames Water makes case for renationalisation … now!
via unison.org.ukBy UNISON’s head of environment, Donna Rowe-Merriman
Shadowy overseas private equity firms have sucked all the good out of Thames Water and saddled it with billions of pounds of debt. So reports that it is scrambling to find extra cash, after handing out millions of pounds to shareholders and bonuses to top bosses in recent years, are hardly surprising.
Even its shareholders won’t keep it afloat, having refused to pay £500m by the end of the month, saying regulatory requirement -
The business model for Thames Water has failed
via unison.org.ukCommenting on reports that Thames Water is scrambling to find extra cash as it handed out millions of pounds to shareholders and bonuses to top bosses in recent years, UNISON head of environment Donna Rowe-Merriman said: “It’s clear the business model for Thames Water has failed and the company is unviable.
“Even Thames Water’s own shareholders refuse to keep it afloat.
“Yet again, staff are facing an uncertain future with jobs at risk and no hope of much-neede -
Law change on flexible working does not go far enough, says UNISON
via unison.org.ukCommenting on a survey by conciliation service ACAS published today (Thursday) that shows most workers are unaware of a change in the law making it easier to request flexible working, UNISON head of equality Josie Irwin said:
“This law change is a welcome move but doesn’t go far enough. Giving everyone the right to work flexibly from day one in a job would be beneficial for staff and employers alike. It would also help bring workplaces into the 21st century. Bosses have not
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