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Slick ad campaign glosses over exploitation and lack of sick pay

Tim Roberts explains how Eastern region care workers are organising in his latest blog

Research from last year shows that thousands of care workers across Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire earn too little to survive, ranging from 56% paid below the living wage in […]

Care employees have been undervalued and ignored for too long.

Why we’re campaigning for a real living wage in care

Care workers are calling on Essex councillors to guarantee a living wage and decent sick pay for the sector at tomorrow’s full council meeting. Essex County Council will debate a Labour motion recognising care staff’s “fantastic work” during the pandemic but pointing out that most continue to earn less than a living wage. Living Wage […]

UNISON Eastern is urging councillors in Essex to back a Labour motion on improving care workers’ conditions. The motion, echoing a pledge UNISON asked council candidates to sign before the last local elections, would commit the council to paying the living wage and occupational sick pay to care workers. We urge anyone in Essex who […]

An independent report has blasted central government and local agencies following the deaths of three people at a privately run hospital for adults with learning disabilities in Norfolk. The Norfolk Safeguarding Adults Board report looked at the deaths of Joanna Bailey, Nicholas Briant and Ben King at Cawston Park Hospital near Aylsham. Jeesal, which ran […]

Tens of thousands of older people and those with disabilities aren’t getting the care they desperately need

For instance, according to the TUC two million workers in the UK aren’t eligible for sick pay, a […]

Ms Maiden also mused: “Who could have imagined the last 15 months?” before reminding delegates of the comments by Boris Johnson’s former advisor Dominic Cummings […]

Overhaul of care needed now

Study shows compulsory jabs could hinder take-up

Care workers are calling on council candidates in Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire to fight for better pay in the sector if elected in May. Their union UNISON is writing to those standing for Luton Borough, Central Bedfordshire and Bedford councils, which are responsible for commissioning adult social care, asking them to sign its Who Cares? pledge. […]

Workers across the public sector are losing billions as employers fail to pay a decent wage