Local government workers today called for widespread consultation to establish whether a ballot for strike action should take place over local government pay. The call from UNISON (the UK
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UNISON General Secretary, Dave Prentis, today (Sunday, 17 June) unveiled phase 1 of the union
Hundreds of UNISON and Unite members working in the NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) service will today (15 June) hold lunch time protests at Blood Centres across England, to protest against swingeing job cuts and closures.
UNISON’s Deputy General Secretary Keith Sonnet, will today (9 June), deliver a rallying call to delegates at the Compass Conference in London, calling for action not words to end global poverty and disease.
Dave Prentis, General Secretary of UNISON, the UK’s largest public sector union, will today (9 June) call on Gordon Brown to seize a
UNISON is urging the Government to put an end to endemic poverty pay that undermines its equalities gains.
UNISON’s Labour Link (political committee) today voted unanimously to nominate Gordon Brown MP as Labour Party leader.
UNISON, the largest public sector union in the UK, today called on Environment Secretary David Miliband to protect British Waterways from being sold off to private contractors.
Work to begin developing a national pay and grading structure for professional and support staff in schools in England has been welcomed by UNISON, the UK
A leading US-based health foundation has given top marks to the UK health system in comparison to other large English-speaking countries and Germany. The Commonwealth Fund, based in New York, put the UK at the top of the
league (replacing Germany) due to the fact that nobody is excluded by inability to pay; that the NHS delivers the correct and safest form of treatment more often than others; and that high levels of internal efficiency have driven down treatment costs.
Government figures today show that more patients than ever before are receiving faster accident and emergency treatment in our hospitals. For the year up to March 2007, 98.2 per cent of the 18.9 million people who attended England’s A&E departments were seen, diagnosed and treated within four hours of arriving at A&E departments.
Today’s Healthcare Commission report shows that 11% of hospital patients shared a room or bay with a patient of the opposite sex. This is after last week’s Department of Health inquiry found that 31 NHS trusts out of 172 has
failed to eliminate mixed sex hospital wards.