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Search Results for “Pay and conditions”
- Conference
- 2015 Health Care Service Group Conference
- Date
- 14 November 2014
- Decision
- Carried
Conference notes that the Health and Social Care Act has resulted in more NHS contracts being awarded to non-public sector organisations whether private companies or social enterprises. This has led to an unacceptable level of fragmentation in service provision which has a negative impact on UNISON members pay, terms and conditions and morale. Conference instructs […]
Motion on the UNISON National
site.
- Conference
- 2015 Health Care Service Group Conference
- Date
- 17 November 2014
- Decision
- Carried
Conference notes that the Alemo-Heron case has unfortunately broken the assumed dynamic link with pre-existing collective agreements for pay rises for members subject to TUPE transfer. We recognise that this means that unless there is a specific post-transfer agreement that binds future pay rises to the pre-TUPE arrangements that transferred members, are now subject to […]
Motion on the UNISON National
site.
- Conference
- 2015 Health Care Service Group Conference
- Date
- 19 November 2014
- Decision
- Carried as Amended
Conference notes that 93% of the Health Service Group membership is employed within the National Health Service, and that we must continue to campaign for employment on decent pay within the NHS as a publicly-accountable, and properly-funded public service. This Conference further notes that the remaining 7% of the Health Service Group membership is employed […]
Motion on the UNISON National
site.
- Conference
- 2015 Health Care Service Group Conference
- Date
- 24 November 2014
- Decision
- Carried
Conference notes the mounting crisis in ambulance services across the UK around the recruitment and retention of ambulance staff. This crisis is growing as more staff leave their jobs as paramedics, ambulance technicians and control staff to pursue other work. Over the last few years, the ambulance workforce has changed, as has the work itself. […]
Motion on the UNISON National
site.
- Conference
- 2015 Health Care Service Group Conference
- Date
- 27 November 2014
- Decision
- Carried
It is hard for organisations to invest in staff in these uncertain times and the impact is detrimental to staff morale. Conference believes that following and challenging […]
Motion on the UNISON National
site.
- Conference
- 2015 Health Care Service Group Conference
- Date
- 27 November 2014
- Decision
- Carried
Conference is also gravely concerned with the threats to NHS staff pay and conditions from this two tier privatisation. These large scale privatisations do pose significant organising […]
Motion on the UNISON National
site.
- Conference
- 2015 Health Care Service Group Conference
- Date
- 27 November 2014
- Decision
- Carried
Conference believes that a major incentive to outsourcing is the belief that it is possible to obtain cheaper services by giving outsourced workers worse pay and conditions than the ‘core’ NHS workforce. Conference believes it is absolutely essential to submit pay claims each year to major outsourcing companies with the aim of achieving at least […]
Motion on the UNISON National
site.
- Conference
- 2015 Health Care Service Group Conference
- Date
- 27 November 2014
- Decision
- Carried
Conference however is concerned at the exceptionally modest ambition of this campaign and believe that for workers to be encouraged to take action we need to seek to regain ground lost over […]
Motion on the UNISON National
site.
- Conference
- 2015 Health Care Service Group Conference
- Date
- 27 November 2014
- Decision
- Carried
Conference calls on the Health Group Executive to launch a campaign to alert the public and our own members to […]
Motion on the UNISON National
site.
- Conference
- 2015 Health Care Service Group Conference
- Date
- 28 November 2014
- Decision
- Carried as Amended
The staff in bands 1-4 make up around 40% of the 1.3 million workers in the NHS and are responsible for an estimated […]
Motion on the UNISON National
site.
- Conference
- 2015 Health Care Service Group Conference
- Date
- 2 December 2014
- Decision
- Carried as Amended
Conference notes 1.5 million people in the UK are employed by Employment Agencies, with around 350,000 people receiving less than the minimum wage. Very few employment agencies paying below the minimum wage have faced any legal action or been fined, despite breaking employment laws. In October 2014, the minimum wage for adults rose by 19p […]
Motion on the UNISON National
site.
- Conference
- 2015 Health Care Service Group Conference
- Date
- 3 December 2014
- Decision
- Carried
Previously agreed between the unions and employer Agenda for Change job description and person specifications are being ignored by NHS […]
Motion on the UNISON National
site.
- Conference
- 2015 Health Care Service Group Conference
- Date
- 3 December 2014
- Decision
- Carried as Amended
In their place we now see Clinical Commissioning Groups, Commissioning Support Units, NHS England, Public Health England, Primary Care Services, National Commissioning Boards, Clinical Senates […]
Motion on the UNISON National
site.
- Conference
- 2015 Health Care Service Group Conference
- Date
- 3 December 2014
- Decision
- Carried as Amended
On-call allowances/payments - are paid during periods of sickness absence where these are normally paid at regular […]
Motion on the UNISON National
site.