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UNISON demands Rishi Sunak guarantee workers ’ protections in EU law bill
UNISON general secretary Christina McAnea has written to prime minister Rishi Sunak to express the union’s concerns about the Retained EU Law Bill, and seek assurances on core workers’ protections.
The bill creates a countdown to the expiry of vital protections in the workplace by 31 December 2023, which will remove 3,800 pieces of EU-derived legislation in one fell swoop.
Ms McAnea accuses the government of placing “ideological principles above the lived, practical needs of the UK.”
The letter follows UNISON’s oral evidence to the parliamentary committee examining the bill, last week, which was presented by head...
Source: UNISON Health care news - November 15, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: Janey Starling Tags: Article News Retained EU Law bill Source Type: news
Workers ’ protections at risk as EU Law bill moves through Parliament
Last week, the government’s Retained EU Law bill passed its second reading in the House of Commons.
The bill, introduced by former business secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg, has set a fast-moving conveyor belt in motion, which will see essential protections for workers automatically vanish in December 2023, unless the government decides to produce new and equivalent UK laws.
UNISON is horrified by the measures included in the Retained EU Law bill. Many core workplace protections – including holiday pay, maternity/paternity leave, protections for part-time workers and equal pay for women and men – come from the European Uni...
Source: UNISON Health care news - October 31, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: Janey Starling Tags: Article News EU Legal pregnancy and maternity rights Retained EU Law bill women's rights Source Type: news
Five trusts outsource their back office in £20m deal
Five trusts within an integrated care system have outsourced their back office functions to NHS Shared Business Services.
Source: HSJ - October 31, 2022 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
OCS workers secure major victory after 26 days of strike action
UNISON members at Lancashire and South Cumbria Foundation Trust have secured a major victory after taking 26 days of strike action over four months.
In a new deal, announced last week, the workers – who are outsourced to private healthcare facilities firm OCS – have won a pay rise of over 14%, an extra week of annual leave and the same sick pay as their colleagues who work directly for the NHS trust.
The 50 workers include porters, catering staff and cleaners at hospitals, mental health units and clinics in Blackburn, Blackpool, Ormskirk, and Preston.
The deal also included an agreement from the trust that the next out...
Source: UNISON Health care news - October 26, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: Amanda Kendal Tags: Article News health NHS OCS outsourcing Source Type: news
The Retained EU Law Bill: An attack on working women
Many core workplace protections – holiday pay, maternity pay and equal pay for women and men – come from the European Union. For decades, EU laws have ensured decent working standards in the UK, shielding workers from exploitation and discrimination.
As a trade union working to tackle exploitation, protect working people and to promote decent pay and work, UNISON is horrified about the proposals contained in the Retained EU Law Bill.
Business Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg has introduced the bill as the final stage of the UK’s departure from the EU. It has set a fast-moving conveyor belt in motion, which will see many w...
Source: UNISON Health care news - October 12, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: Janey Starling Tags: News employment rights EU pregnancy and maternity rights Source Type: news
Blog: Unions are the solution, not the problem
Boris Johnson has pretty much refused to work ever since the cost of living crisis erupted. But we know his pay hasn’t been docked. When working people go on strike, they lose pay. It’s always a big deal, and it’s a difficult decision for any worker.
Taking a stand, withdrawing labour, and losing pay, sends a clear message to employers that they won’t be taken for granted. They won’t be exploited. They won’t put up with declining pay and standards. They won’t be used.
Workers take industrial action when they have collective strength and the backing of their union. It’s a last resort, when the hard wor...
Source: UNISON Health care news - June 29, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: Christina McAnea Tags: Article General secretary's blog Christina McAnea Source Type: news
How Pittsburgh Is Leading the U.S. Back to the Moon
It’s not easy to get from North Lincoln Avenue to the Lake of Death. North Lincoln Avenue is in Pittsburgh; the Lake of Death is on the moon—meaning there’s a tidy 385,000 km (over 239,000 mi.) between them. But before the end of the year, that gap should close—thanks to a modest company in a modest building just a third of a mile northwest of the Pittsburgh Steelers’ Heinz Field, tucked humbly between a Wendy’s and a McDonald’s.
The building is the headquarters of Astrobotic, which—if all goes according to plan—will launch its Pittsburgh-made Peregrine spacecraft from...
Source: TIME: Science - June 23, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Jeffrey Kluger Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
The tide is turning – and UNISON will rise!
“We have good reason to be optimistic. It feels a bit like the tide is turning.
“The government should be in no doubt: UNISON is strong. UNISON is resolute – and UNISON is up for the fight.
“Together we rise, conference!”
That was the message at the heart of today’s address to UNISON’s national delegate conference by general secretary Christina McAnea.
And conference did rise, with cheers, applause and a standing ovation as she concluded.
Threaded throughout, it was a speech in which she gave voice to the anger and frustration of members, struggling with the “worst cost-of-living crisis in over 70 years,”...
Source: UNISON Health care news - June 15, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: Amanda Kendal Tags: Article News 2022 National Delegate Conference Christina McAnea cost of living Source Type: news
Maintenance outsourcing and safety. Case study of disorganization phenomena in a reticular organization - Grusenmeyer C.
Maintenance activities expose operators involved to multiple risks. These activities are also very largely outsourced. Yet, relationships between maintenance outsourcing and health and safety are still poorly documented and real outsourced maintenance oper...
Source: SafetyLit - June 14, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Conference affirms there should be no profiteering from social care
There should be no profiteering from social care. That message was at the heart of a series of debates at UNISON’s local government conference in Brighton this afternoon, as delegates continued to plot the service group’s path for the year to come.
Moving a major motion on care workers for the service group executive, Sarah Barwick said that, while the pandemic has been very challenging for all local government workers, it has been particularly hard so for those “undervalued, underpaid care workers”.
They had been “ignored by most people and politicians” until the preventable deaths that followed when vulnerabl...
Source: UNISON Health care news - June 13, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: Amanda Kendal Tags: Article 2022 local government conference 2022 Local Government Service Group Conference social care Source Type: news
Delegates agree: ‘ If our pay doesn ’t rise, we will ’
This morning, UNISON local government conference unanimously voted to back a motion to campaign for pay rises for workers delivering outsourced services, including those in social care, school meals and refuse collection.
Local authority budget cuts have heavily affected the salaries of workers employed by private contractors who are delivering local government outsourced services.
Introducing the motion, UNISON chair of the private contractors national forum Catharyn Richardson said: “If our pay doesn’t rise, we will”.
UNISON has long campaigned for pay awards in private contractors to match those in the private sec...
Source: UNISON meat hygiene - June 13, 2022 Category: Food Science Authors: Janey Starling Tags: Article 2022 local government conference 2022 Local Government Service Group Conference Source Type: news
Conference applauds the Local Service Champions
The second morning of UNISON’s local government conference opened with the presentation of awards for the union’s Local Service Champions, with delegates rising to their feet for a standing ovation for the three winners, who were chosen from over a thousand nominees.
Paddy Toner from Halton Borough Council was the overall winner. A rehabilitation worker, who helps people who have a vision impairment to stay in their own homes and remain independent, Mr Toner was unable to be in Brighton, but will be receiving his award at the union’s national disabled members’ conference in the autumn.
Susanne Ravenscroft had asked...
Source: UNISON Health care news - June 13, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: Amanda Kendal Tags: Article News 2022 local government conference 2022 Local Government Service Group Conference Source Type: news
Delegates reveal that it ’ s not all doom and gloom
As UNISON’s local government service group met in the flesh for the first time since 2019, delegates were keen to not only talk about the damage being inflicted on services by the UK government – but also to look at ways of improving the union’s impact.
And there was time too for the vital job of emphasising that, no matter how difficult things have been in recent years – and remain – UNISON does make a positive difference.
For instance, in a motion on the need for a national insourcing strategy for the sector, Lianne Dallimore from Cymru/Wales said that she was “proud to bring some light” to conference, as s...
Source: UNISON Health care news - June 13, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: Amanda Kendal Tags: Article News 2022 Local Government Service Group Conference insourcing Source Type: news
itrac, LLC Completes Multiple Acquisitions, Creating Leading Outsourced Dental Marketing, MarTech, and Recruiting Platform
NEWS PROVIDED BYitrac, LLC, May 26, 2022, 07:00 ETTAMPA, Fla., May 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- itrac, LLC, a portfolio company of HealthEdge Investment Partners and 424 Capital, has expanded its product and service offering through the completion of three strategic add-on investments. With offices in Oregon, Texas, Indiana, Georgia, and Florida, itrac is one of the leading and longest-standing dental marketing agencies in the US, offering a suite of marketing technology ( " MarTech " ), outsourced marketing, training, and club software solutions to assist dentists and their practices ac...
Source: Dental Technology Blog - June 2, 2022 Category: Dentistry Source Type: news
Tampa marketing tech platform expands nationally with three dental acquisition deals
The company provides outsourced marketing, training and software for independent dental practices.
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - May 26, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Christina Georgacopoulos Source Type: news
