UNISON will continue to campaign for vital local services to be properly funded after successful day of action focused on social care raised awareness with MPs
UNISON will continue to campaign for vital local services to be properly funded after successful day of action focused on social care raised awareness with MPs
It also means care workers are understandably reluctant to challenge their employers when things aren’t as they should be, for fear of […]
Research reveals the pressure on councils
All local authorities in England should be allowed to keep a greater share than they do currently of business rates so they can afford to fund social care properly, says UNISON today (Wednesday). The union is urging the government to grant councils better terms along similar lines to a deal agreed earlier this month with […]
The union wrote to all the councils yesterday, International Women’s Day, warning that thousands of women across the country “are suffering the effects of in-work poverty, despite their […]
Their proposals threaten a further demolition of the welfare state, which will leave all but the very poorest forced to cough up for their care.
The charity has been in dispute with UNISON over its failure to pay care staff the minimum wage when providing on-call night care. Some carers had previously been paid a […]
Elderly and vulnerable people in residential care homes are being left in re-used continence pads, denied trips to the toilet and kept indoors for days on end because of severe staff shortages, according to a survey published today (Sunday) by UNISON. The vast majority (83 per cent) of care workers say they are so rushed […]
And delegates heard from a service user when Chris Nykiel of Leeds local government told them: “As a […]
Care workers owed up to six years’ back pay after being paid below the minimum wage will have to wait until October for the money they are owed after a government announcement today
Government move a ‘cruel blow’ to carers denied the minimum wage for sleep-ins
Yorkshire council becomes the largest local authority to sign UNISON’s charter
Scottish council signs charter committing it to standards for care workers and those they care for
North-East council becomes the latest to commit itself to UNISON’s Ethical Care Charter
“Our government and our country must show they care about those who care for our loved ones,” he added. Care is […]