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Liz Chinchen is on duty for most of the weekend of 20/21 April. Fatima Ayad will be on media duty on Sunday afternoon.

If you’ve already sent an email, please do follow up with a call, text or WhatsApp to ensure we’ve seen. Many thanks 

Liz Chinchen E: press@unison.co.uk M: 07778 158175
Fatima Ayad E: f.ayad@unison.co.uk M: 07508 080383

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Put NHS pay right to stop NHS staff quitting amid cost-of-living ‘apocalypse’, says UNISON

This is a desperate situation with NHS staff already quitting in their droves.

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Government must show commitment to social worker reform, says UNISON

Career development and pay proposals must be properly funded

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Government should focus on cost of living crisis rather than attacking unions

Right to strike is fundamental for workers

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Government plan to provide early years education on the cheap will hit children and staff

The sector urgently needs long-term investment

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Ministers must do much more to support the hard-up as inflation hits another high, says UNISON

Boost to public sector wages and benefits are a must

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Rising NHS staff exits require urgent government action, says UNISON

Without an urgent retention package, including an above-inflation pay rise, the NHS will be unable to stem the tide of leavers and waiting lists will continue to grow.

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Threat of strike action at health sites across Lancashire, says UNISON 

Staff including porters and cleaners employed by healthcare facilities firm OCS paid less than NHS colleagues

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Government has run out of ideas to tackle cost of living crisis, says UNISON  

Ministers haven’t grasped the seriousness of the situation.

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Restore free testing in schools or risk SATs disruption, warns UNISON

National testing in English primary schools this year could be severely affected because of Covid absences, according to concerns raised in a UNISON survey released today (Friday). More than seven in ten (74%) teaching assistants and learning support staff say pupils are facing more disruption to their education than usual because school employees and children have recently been off […]

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Government must bring back COVID funding to safeguard ‘lives and livelihoods’, says UNISON       

Christina McAnea and Professor Martin Green warn more staff could quit unless infection control fund is reinstated

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Ministers must adopt Migration Advisory Committee recommendations to beef-up care staff numbers, says UNISON

Care employers are losing people in droves to warehouses, supermarkets and online retailers able to pay more for less stressful work

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High Court rules that government orders to discharge untested Covid patients was illegal, says UNISON

Covid spread like wildfire as untested but positive patients were discharged from hospitals.

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Staff with long Covid will feel forced out of the health service if managers don’t treat them fairly, warns UNISON

Workers with the condition are returning to work early because they’re afraid of losing their jobs

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Ambulance uniforms not fit for purpose and may put staff at risk, says UNISON 

Ambulance employees work in all sorts of situations and weathers.  

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Health staff risk being driven out by unfair mileage rates and new parking charges, says UNISON     

This is not a good time to be an NHS worker struggling on a budget.

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