These ill-thought-out rules have worsened the staffing crisis hampering the NHS and social care and caused significant upset.
These ill-thought-out rules have worsened the staffing crisis hampering the NHS and social care and caused significant upset.
It’s nothing short of a tragedy that huge amounts of time and resources have been wasted.
This week marked a whole year since the country went into lockdown as COVID-19 surged across the UK. In that year, we have seen the government repeatedly mismanage the situation, ignoring the Govt advisory group SAGE warnings until they had no option but to act. Over 126,000 lives have been lost. As the nation fell […]
Government must guarantee staff can work additional hours or get compensation for lost wages
Boris Johnson promised a lifeline to low-paid workers then callously pulled it away
‘The best of trade union empowerment’. UNISON branch officers, lawyers and members recall a four-year battle to win pay justice
Please encourage Black activists in your branch to register for this event; panelists include Assistant General Secretary, Roger McKenzie, and Chair of the […]
Government must ensure cash goes to staff
Responding to figures published today (Tuesday) by the Office for National Statistics showing 1,800 care home deaths in the South East of England linked to coronavirus up to 8 May, UNISON South East regional secretary Steve Torrance said: “This is a shocking price being paid by elderly and vulnerable people whose families believed they were being kept […]
Through UNISON members working together and standing up for each other, Adult Social Care staff challenged and won fair re-grading across the department. In […]
Commenting on the government’s new scheme for social care employers that sets out to address the problems where sleep-in staff have not been paid the minimum wage, UNISON assistant general secretary Christina McAnea said: “This scheme helps no-one. The care system is creaking at the seams, and no-one wants to see it plunged further into crisis. […]
It also wrote off historic fines and penalties for underpayment before today. “Each year, care workers are collectively cheated of £130m in […]
But Surrey has been told it can hold on to more of the cash it raises in return for abandoning a referendum on increasing council tax by 15 per cent. The £1.8bn cost of allowing […]
The government could ease the social care crisis by handing back to councils in the South East millions in surplus cash raised from business rates, according to new figures published today (Wednesday) by UNISON. If local authorities in the South East were given back their share of business rates that have been collected […]