NHS staff protest at Westminster to demand fair pay
Health service staff angry that their pay is still being capped – despite the economic recovery – are to remind the government today of the millions of hours of unpaid
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600,000 Unison members to be balloted for strike action over pay
Unison has today announced a ballot of its 600,000 local government and school members for strike action after 70% of members rejected this year’s pay offer in a consultative ballot.
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Report finds 3 in 4 on zero hours earn ‘below living wage’
Most workers on zero hours contracts earn less than the living wage, fuelling fears of poor pay and exploitation of employees, according to a new report. A study by the
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NI health staff may strike as payment problems continue
Northern Ireland’s Health Minister, Edwin Poots, has come under fire for failing to tackle the severe problem with the payment of staff salaries. Unison says frontline staff have been pushed
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Report: How do pay and conditions for workers in residential, nursing and domiciliary care services relate to the quality of care they provide?
Care workers do demanding work for low pay, and social care services are being delivered in an increasingly challenging environment, yet service users, their carers and families have increasing expectations
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Unison to debate pay action at annual conference
The threat of industrial action by health workers in a bitter dispute with the Government over pay is set to come a step closer today. Unison’s annual health conference will
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Think-tank: give zero-hours contract workers fixed-hours employment
Workers on controversial zero-hours contracts should get a legal right to a fixed-hours arrangement after 12 months, a think-tank has concluded. The Resolution Foundation’s suggestion came as part of a
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Unions anger as health workers’ pay pegged at 1%
The Government has been accused of “taking a scalpel” to the pay of health workers by refusing to give an across the board wage rise. Increases of 1% will be
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Glasgow care home staff begin three-day strike over hours
Staff at Glasgow’s council-run care homes are to step up industrial action with a three-day walkout starting today. The strike is the third this year in the action by Unison
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Social care workers pay lagging behind in London
Two thirds of London boroughs are yet to be accredited as London Living Wage employers; of the third that are accredited there has been slow progress in applying fair wages
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