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Mancunion April 2012
The April edition of the Mancunion is now available to download by opening this post, then clicking on this link.
What did your MP do to save the NHS?
The government’s controversial Health and Social Care Bill has now cleared both Houses of Parliament and has passed into law. Coalition MPs voted to agree the Lords’ amendments to the Bill, turning down a Commons proposal from Shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham to delay the final vote until the government published the Transitional Risk Register, [...]
UNISON budget response
“This budget is not a road to recovery but a Road to Nowhere – No jobs, No growth, No idea.” This is the damning verdict of UNISON chief Dave Prentis on George Osborne’s budget today (21 March). The union accused the Chancellor of sucking demand out of the economy and reverting to the same old [...]
999 – answer the call. Save the NHS
The hated Health and Social Care Bill could become law as early as next week. This means that there are only days to save the NHS as we know it; an NHS that is fair, efficient and more popular with the public than ever before. This Bill will change all that and create an NHS [...]
Saturday 28 April, Workers Memorial Day – Cuts Cost Lives
Health and safety is under threat. The government believes that health and safety is a burden on business. It wants to: remove as many health and safety regulations as it can, cut inspections and enforcement of the law, and make it more difficult to win compensation. Numerous reviews undertaken by or for the government find, [...]
Manchester Rally in support of the NHS – 3 March 2012
THE END OF THE NHS AS WE KNOW IT? The Tory-led Government’s Health and Social Care Bill is a major threat to our National Health Service. It will cause serious problems; fragmenting health care, causing service instability and creating more inequality. Improvements like more clinical involvement and a better voice for patients can be achieved [...]
Local government workers to suffer third year of pay misery
Even more local government workers will fall into the trap of poverty, as the local government employers confirmed on 23 February that they would impose a pay freeze for the third year running. More than 1.6 million workers will be hit, even those on the lowest wages who will not get the £250 minimum increase [...]
Manchester Rally to support your NHS – Saturday 3 March
This is a critical time for the NHS with Andrew Lansley’s NHS Bill facing crucial votes in the House of Lords. Public opposition to the Bill is growing. A recent UNISON/YouGov poll shows that the majority (62%) of the public do not trust the government to handle the NHS and just one in four (26%) [...]
Help Save Our NHS
The government’s Health and Social Care Bill, currently going through parliament, puts the NHS in danger by threatening the very principles it was built on. It will fragment and privatise our NHS to the detriment of patients and services. UNISON has been leading the fight against these plans since their introduction and more and more [...]
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