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Food banks under pressure from a ‘tsunami of need’

Food bank charity The Trussell Trust reports that one in five working people are now turning to food banks, as the cost of living crisis takes its toll

Article, News on the UNISON National site.
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Conference sets campaigning tasks on universal credit

Speakers talk of the devastation caused by Conservative attacks on benefits and the most vulnerable in society

Article, News on the UNISON National site.
Posted in 2019 National Delegate Conference foodbanks repeal two child limit Universal credit
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The government needs to ‘sling their hook’

Local government delegates agree it’s essential to get rid of the Conservative government in order to save our services

Article on the UNISON National site.
Posted in 2019 Local Government Conference austerity foodbanks local government poverty save our services
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A history man’s challenge for the future

Yet he also found himself bemused by a stream of shoppers scurrying in and out of a shopping arcade, barely paying attention to the protest, as though the problems facing the […]

Article, Magazine on the UNISON National site.
Posted in fighting cuts and privatisation in the NHS foodbanks Harry Leslie Smith history housing politics poverty zero-hours contracts