Blog: Fair pay for low-paid workers
Today, on 1 April, some of you will be getting a pay rise. But don’t be fooled – for some UNISON members working for outsourced contractors or private companies, any modest increase in your pay is not from an employer who is choosing to pay staff decent wages that they can afford to live on. It may well be because the rate of pay you receive from your employer is the national living wage rate – previously known at the national minimum wage, and the lowest rate of pay across the UK – or the real living wage. The rates for both are going up from today. If your employer has registered with the Living Wage Foundation,...
Source: UNISON meat hygiene - April 1, 2021 Category: Food Science Authors: Christina McAnea Tags: General secretary's blog News Christina McAnea low pay Source Type: news

Missouri ’s defunding of public health departments hampers vaccine rollout
As many Missourians are forced to drive hundreds of miles for a Covid-19 vaccine, a new report explains part of the problem with the state ’s vaccine rollout stems from its defunding of local health departments. According to Kaiser Health News, Missouri bypassed 115 of its local health departments in the initial rollout and outsourced the work to hospitals, consultants and federal programs. But with that strategy, Missouri ranks ne ar the bottom in population vaccinated with at least one dose.…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - March 26, 2021 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Vince Brennan Source Type: news

Regenerative Outcomes Launches Clinical Research Trial Management...
Regenerative Outcomes, LLC (https://www.regenerativeoutcomes.com), an emerging global provider of outsourced regulatory and drug...(PRWeb March 12, 2021)Read the full story at https://www.prweb.com/releases/regenerative_outcomes_launches_clinical_research_trial_management_services_to_small_biotech_companies/prweb17789205.htm
Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals - March 12, 2021 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

Reality check: public sector pay freeze
Let’s unpack some of the chancellor’s statements and see how they stack up when they’re checked and given a bit more context. ‘Pay has been rising faster in the public sector than the private sector’ Pay rises have been higher on average in the public sector over the last year. However, they have been lower than the increases in the private sector for much of the last ten years.  Averages can be misleading – which was obviously the chancellor’s intention.  A recent Office for National Statistics (ONS) study that compared jobs on a like-for-like basis found that the average public sector ...
Source: UNISON Health care news - December 1, 2020 Category: UK Health Authors: Janey Starling Tags: Article budget chancellor spending review Source Type: news

Living wage increase leaves many thousands of health and care staff behind
Commenting on the increase in real living wage rates – to £9.50 (and £10.85 in London) – announced today (Monday) by the Living Wage Foundation, UNISON assistant general secretary Christina McAnea said: “While some 250,000 low-paid workers will get a wage rise today, many others on the Covid frontline will be less fortunate. “Care staff working in homes and out in the community remain stuck on poverty pay, despite vital work supporting society’s most vulnerable throughout the pandemic. “Today’s increase also means thousands of the lowest paid health workers employed by the NHS – cleaners, domestics, po...
Source: UNISON Health care news - November 9, 2020 Category: UK Health Authors: Garfield Myrie Tags: News Press release Christina McAnea living wage Source Type: news

UNISON fights to save award-winning hospital catering
Over 2,200 have signed a UNISON petition to stop North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust from outsourcing the award-winning catering service at Hitchingbrooke Hopsital. The hospital, which was named as one of the top 10 hospitals in the country for food, is set to have 70 roles put out to tender, including kitchen, linen and patient services. As reported in the Hunts Post, UNISON ran a webinar with health expert Dr John Lister. He claimed that “private companies will not be able to match the quality and level” of the outstanding service currently provided at the hospital. He concluded that “Outsourcing will undermine ...
Source: UNISON meat hygiene - October 9, 2020 Category: Food Science Authors: Martin Cullen Tags: Article eastern region health Source Type: news

Unions say HE employers ’ pay freeze proposal is unacceptable
UNISON and the other higher education unions are calling on universities to think again, after the employers proposed a pay freeze for staff. The New Joint Negotiating Committee for Higher Education Staff (New JNCHES) has made clear that this is not acceptable and said that it has not abandoned the call for a pay deal for this year. There will be an additional meeting on 5 November at which sector finances will be reviewed. By this date, there should be greater clarity about the number of students who have signed up, although some universities are concerned about retention rates and January intake rates etc. In relation to...
Source: UNISON Health care news - October 7, 2020 Category: UK Health Authors: Amanda Kendal Tags: Article News higher education higher education pay Source Type: news

UK coronavirus live news: four more areas of Wales to go into lockdown; Whitty calls for reduced social contacts
Restrictions for Newport, Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Blaenau Gwent; Whitty calls for ‘break in unnecessary links between households’Whitty: UK could see 200 deaths a day by NovemberVallance says 6,000 new cases a day in UK, doubling every seven daysSummary of key points from Whitty/Vallance Covid briefingFollow Covid rules or see UK deaths return to spring levels, Shapps warnsGlobal coronavirus updates – live2.58pmBSTAnneliese Dodds’ first speech as shadow chancellor to a Labour conference this morning did not take place in the best of circumstances. The conference is online, which means that even if Barack Obama...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - September 21, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Andrew Sparrow Tags: Politics Coronavirus outbreak Health Chris Whitty Patrick Vallance Labour Science Infectious diseases Scotland Wales Labour conference 2020 Anneliese Dodds Source Type: news

Homerton Hospital workers secure living wage and sick pay victory
Homerton Hospital’s cleaners, porters and security staff will be paid the London living wage and NHS sick pay “from day one” of a renewed, five-year contract with facilities firm ISS. However, hospital workers will still not get NHS equivalents for their wages, pensions, overtime or annual leave. Since December 2019, UNISON has been running a campaign alongside GMB to persuade hospital chiefs to bring the outsourced services back in-house, ensuring parity for the lowest-paid key workers. UNISON organiser Michael Etheridge told the Hackney Gazette: “While this is far short of equality and what our members deser...
Source: UNISON Health care news - August 4, 2020 Category: UK Health Authors: Janey Starling Tags: Article News Covid-19 homerton hospital hospital workers key workers outsourcing sick pay Source Type: news

Outsourced cleaners at Luton and Dunstable Hospital claim NHS pay victory
Hospital cleaners at Luton and Dunstable have won a campaign to be paid NHS rates. The deal will come into effect when private contractor Engie’s contract ends in November. From then on, the workers will enjoy full NHS pay of at least £9.21 an hour, as well as any nationally agreed future rises. Staff have also won improved annual leave and sick pay entitlements. The trust is currently picking the next private firm to run its cleaning, catering and housekeeping contract, but all workers will be guaranteed NHS pay rates. UNISON regional organiser Shane Hall said: “This is brilliant news for some of the lowest-paid...
Source: UNISON Health care news - August 4, 2020 Category: UK Health Authors: Janey Starling Tags: Article News hospital hospital workers nhs pay outsourcing sick pay Source Type: news

Ministers mustn ’t forget important workers delivering essential services, says UNISON
The government must do more to help thousands of “hidden workers” who are being put under extra pressure or are seeing their health put at risk as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, says UNISON today (Tuesday). Alongside the frontline health and care staff, there are people around the UK keeping essential services going, who are being largely forgotten as they too face serious dangers and are being overwhelmed with work, the union warns. They include refuse collectors, housing officers, social workers and teaching assistants whose work must continue but who are often unable to keep a safe distance or not entitled to...
Source: UNISON meat hygiene - May 26, 2020 Category: Food Science Authors: Anthony Barnes Tags: News Press release coronavirus Jon Richards local government refuse collectors social workers teaching assistants Source Type: news

I Thought I Could Handle Anything. Then My Husband Got Sick
When my husband began to show symptoms of COVID-19, about a week after we found out one of his coworkers on a building site in New York City had a positive test, I wasn’t particularly worried. He’s a middle-aged, athletic, healthy guy. Our kids live elsewhere. We would just hunker down for a few days and get through it together. After all, the pandemic has forced many people to do work that they have traditionally outsourced. Families are homeschooling, cleaning their own homes, cooking more meals, doing their own home repairs. Even if nobody in their home has fallen ill, people have had to behave more like hea...
Source: TIME: Health - April 29, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Belinda Luscombe Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news

What do carers think of #ClapForCarers?
UNISON steward Hassan Ortega works for a charity providing a homelessness prevention service in Salford. He said: “I feel mixed about #ClapForCarers. It’s great that it’s raised the profile of workers in the community sector who are providing services that are keeping people safe, healthy and protected.” However, Hassan notes that what carers really need is not to be left unprotected and vulnerable themselves – and not to be outsourced. “In some respects, it could be seen as a diversionary activity to keep the public busy. But I value that it’s raised the profile of a group of workers who were pretty mu...
Source: UNISON meat hygiene - April 22, 2020 Category: Food Science Authors: Janey Starling Tags: Article News adult social care care staff care workers Care workers for change Clap for Carers coronavirus Covid-19 Source Type: news

Lack of protective equipment for health and social care staff is “a crisis within a crisis”
The heads of Britain’s health and social care unions have today (Wednesday) warned ministers that the lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) for health and social care workers is a “crisis within a crisis”.     In a joint statement – signed by seven organisations including UNISON, the Royal College of Midwives, GMB, Unite and TUC – they call on the government to urgently increase the supply of PPE to staff in the NHS and social care.  The union leaders warn that workers are being forced to risk their lives:  “It is now clear that the lack of personal protective equipment (P...
Source: UNISON meat hygiene - April 1, 2020 Category: Food Science Authors: Anthony Barnes Tags: Article News Press release coronavirus coronavirus health workers NHS PPE TUC Source Type: news

HE unions submit a ‘ timely and serious ’ pay claim for 2020/21
Higher education unions have submitted their joint pay claim for 2020/21, against a backdrop of five disputes over the past six years on pay and related matters in the sector. The new claim calls for a pay increase of the retail price index plus 5% on all 49 points of the national pay spine. The five unions state that: “Our claim is timely and serious and argues the case that all staff deserve a decent pay rise that both keeps up with the increasing cost of living as well as catching up with pay lost over the past 10 years. “Whether HE staff work in pre- or post-1992 universities, the contribution of all staff should b...
Source: UNISON Health care news - March 24, 2020 Category: UK Health Authors: matheoud Tags: Article News education services he higher education higher education pay universities Source Type: news

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