General Secretary of UNISON writes to chair of the Labour Party Hazel Blears about claims that Labour wanted to cushion marginal seats from NHS cuts
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UNISON General Secretary Dave Prentis, said:
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UNISON members at NHS Logistics* have voted overwhelmingly to take strike action to protect their service. 74% of members voted yes in the ballot.
UNISON, the UK
Karen Jennings, UNISON Head of Health said:
“Despite repeated requests, UNISON has still not seen the business case for transferring NHS Logistics to parcel company DHL, because of so called”commercial confidentiality”.
UNISON has welcomed the latest Government initiative to bring back good
school dinners. National officer, Christine Lewis, said:
Using the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) to develop six new hospital sites, will prove a costly error, warned UNISON, the UK’s largest union today.
UNISON has called on the European Commission to reject UK Government plans to pilot schemes that would limit inspection of carcases at game and poultry plants. The union says that such deregulation would endanger public health and subvert European protection measures.
UNISON, the UK’s largest health union, said today it strongly supports the Memorandum of Understanding between the NHS Security Management Service and the Association of Chief Police Officers.
Nursing and other staff in NHS Direct are pressuring for industrial action over the organisation’s restructuring exercise which includes the threat of compulsory redundancies. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) and UNISON have submitted evidence to NHS Direct which is highly critical of its proposed actions. NHS Direct is not in deficit, but has to save £15 million from its budget.
Commenting on the proposed increase to the number of Foundation Trusts, Karen Jennings, UNISON Head of Health, said:
Karen Jennings, UNISON Head of Health said:
Commenting on proposals for the new NHS pension scheme Karen Jennings, Head of Health for UNISON the UK
Unions representing health workers are turning up the heat on MPs during the summer recess over the alarming pace of ill-advised change in the NHS.
UNISON national officer, Steve Bloomfield, said:
“It is very disappointing to hear of the continued losses being faced by British Gas. These are almost totally caused by a dysfunctional energy market that has led to the highest levels of wholesale gas price increases in living memory.