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, [...]
I’m delighted to tell you that HOPE not hate has just arrived back from the printers and is now ready for distribution. With forty-eight pages of news, views and comment, HOPE not hate is the new bi-monthly, full-colour magazine of the HOPE not hate campaign. I hope you will consider getting a copy. The magazine [...]
The Branch AGM is almost upon us and this is a reminder to all members that the meeting is going to take place at 12.45pm Wednesday 7th March in the Friends Meeting House. There will also be a raffle held with many prizes available to win. Please make every effort to attend as this is [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Responding to the Labour party’s suggestions that public service workers should accept more pay freezes and pay cuts, UNISON’s General Secretary Dave Prentis said: “Our members needed hope and a reason to vote Labour. They have been snatched away. In the past year Labour has struggled to get its message across to show that there [...]
WHAT DID STRIKE ACTION ACHIEVE? The action on 30th November demonstrated the massive support of our members against the Government’s attempt to impose changes to our pension scheme. The Branch congratulates all those who took part in the action which was so well supported that almost 90% of Manchester Council staff were recorded as officially [...]
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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 [...]