While you ’ re helping the nation, UNISON is working for you
UNISON nationally and regionally is working hard to ensure that the union is supporting members to the best of its ability during the coronavirus crisis. These are extraordinary and unprecedented times – and we are acting accordingly. Amongst the union’s key aims has been to negotiate around the impact of the pandemic on members at work. Christina McAnea, assistant general secretary responsible for bargaining, negotiations and equalities said today: “Giving advice and support to our members during this time of crisis has been of paramount importance to our bargaining teams. “We are well aware that the majority of U...
Source: UNISON Health care news - March 24, 2020 Category: UK Health Authors: matheoud Tags: Article News coronavirus pay negotiating and bargaining Source Type: news

‘If We Don’t Work, We Don’t Get Paid.’ How the Coronavirus Is Exposing Inequality Among America’s Workers
There are many things that worry Fina Kao about working in a busy donut shop in an age of fear about a spreading virus. The elderly customer who shuffles across the brown linoleum floor of the shop, orders a glazed donut, and then coughs. The parents sitting at a table sharing a breakfast sandwich as their small child touches the tables and the floor and the drinks fridge with her dirty fingers. The regulars who come in speaking Mandarin, who Kao knows travel annually to China—one of whom proceeds to sit at the window and cut his fingernails. The fact that California now has 43 confirmed cases of coronavirus, more th...
Source: TIME: Health - March 4, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alana Semuels Tags: Uncategorized coronavirus COVID-19 Income Inequality paid sick leave Source Type: news

Love, LGBT+ history and more wins
It’s been freezing cold and dangerously wet, but that hasn’t stopped UNISON members this month. February kicked off with Black members’ conference, where Yvonne Green was presented with the 2020 Nelson Mandela Award and Funmi Ayeni won Young Black member of the year. Heart Unions week ran from 10-16 February, and we made this video to remind you why UNISON is the best: UNISON continued to fight on the frontlines of food safety, and national officer Paul Bell teamed up with bereaved father Steve Nash to deliver a 216,938-strong petition to the Food Standards Agency (FSA) headquarters in London. The petition calls on ...
Source: UNISON meat hygiene - February 28, 2020 Category: Food Science Authors: Martin Cullen Tags: Article 2020 Women's Conference Care workers for change ethical care charter LGBT history Source Type: news

Council cleaners celebrate after seeing off outsourcing threat
UNISON has notched up another victory preventing low-paid workers being outsourced to private firms. Thanks to campaigning and pressure by the union’s Middlesbrough local government branch and Northern region, the local council has dropped plans to hive off the jobs of 140 cleaners, who feared for their pay and pensions if they were transferred. The workers – who are among the lowest-paid staff at the local authority – were told their jobs were to be outsourced to a number of contractors. The branch campaigned against the transfer with strong support from the Labour group of councillors. Their opposition culminated i...
Source: UNISON Health care news - February 20, 2020 Category: UK Health Authors: Tony Braisby Tags: Article cleaning staff councils local government northern region outsourcing privatisation Source Type: news

Heart Unions week: so many reasons to love UNISON
There are a lot of reasons to love trade unions. Heart Unions week, which runs from 10-16 February, is a great chance to shout about them. Here’s our favourite seven reasons why UNISON is so great and below we’ve got a whole other 10 reasons in a video for you to share. Even Keir Starmer gets in on the act (scroll to the end). You can trust UNISON to give you solid, reliable advice on your rights at work – whether it’s about pay, discrimination or you’re at risk of losing your job. UNISON runs (and wins) national campaigns to transform working conditions for some of the most hardworking peopl...
Source: UNISON meat hygiene - February 10, 2020 Category: Food Science Authors: Janey Starling Tags: Article heart unions heart unions week Heart UNISON Source Type: news

Cardinal Health terminates agreement with Chinese supplier in wake of surgical gown recall
Cardinal Health announced late yesterday that it has terminated its relationship with Siyang Holymed in Suqian, China, an FDA-authorized supplier that shifted production of the OEM's surgical gowns to non-approved sites without the proper controlled environments. Unable to ensure the sterility of the gowns produced under those conditions, Cardinal Health has recalled or initiated a corrective action on 2.9 million procedure packs containing the affected gowns. The issue first came to light in mid-January, when Cardinal Health alerted customers to potential quality issues affecting some of its surgical gowns and PreSource p...
Source: MDDI - January 31, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Tags: Plastics Today Source Type: news

UNISON deal ends outsourcing at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
UNISON-brokered deal ends outsourcing at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust A thousand low-paid porters, cleaners and catering staff at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust in London are today (Thursday) celebrating after winning the right to be directly managed by the NHS, says UNISON. From 1 April the staff – who work in the trust’s five hospitals across the capital – will no longer be employed by private contractor Sodexo. The company has held the contract since 2015. As part of the transfer back to the NHS, staff from Sodexo will see their pay, overtime, pensions and sickness allowances brought in line with o...
Source: UNISON Health care news - January 30, 2020 Category: UK Health Authors: Garfield Myrie Tags: Article dave prentis Eakins Greater London Region health Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust low-paid outsourcing Source Type: news

Birkbeck cleaners win fight to be directly employed
Cleaning staff at Birkbeck College in London have won their long-running struggle to have their jobs transferred back in-house. Yesterday was their first day of direct employment since the service was outsourced in the late 1990s. The workers will benefit from improved conditions, plus access to the SAUL pension scheme. Birkbeck UNISON campaigns officer Edwin Clifford-Coupe said: “The cleaning staff and their UNISON representatives have campaigned courageously for an end to the injustice of outsourcing. “This phase of the campaign began in early 2018, but it was a continuation of our successful campaigns for the Londo...
Source: UNISON Health care news - January 17, 2020 Category: UK Health Authors: Amanda Kendal Tags: Article News Source Type: news

Cochrane seeks - Project Manager (CRM)
This role is an exciting opportunity to use your experience in CRM Project Management to make a difference in the field of healthcare research.  This role is the first point of contact and key relationship holder for our CRM supplier and will manage all work that is conducted with that partner. This ranges from technical support issues through to major development projects, all of which is outsourced but requires project management expertise within Cochrane to ensure that the partnership works efficiently.We are looking for a self-motivated and highly organised individual who is able to work effectively and collaborativel...
Source: Cochrane News and Events - January 15, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lydia Parsonson Source Type: news

2019 Reviewed – Part Two
July The month opened with a living wage win in Cheshire, after the union successfully negotiated a deal with Edsential for school caterers and cleaners to be paid at least £9 an hour. Other school support staff would also get a pay rise in the deal. BBC Radio 4 broadcast a week-long drama about the problems of 15-minute care visits, based on the experiences of UNISON member Caroline Firmin, whose campaigning saw Southwark Council become one of the first councils in the UK to adopt our Ethical Care Charter. A period of busy summer strike action saw members take to the picket lines over pay in Birmingham and Blackpool and ...
Source: UNISON Health care news - January 2, 2020 Category: UK Health Authors: Demetrios Matheou Tags: Article News Source Type: news

MAIA Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Announces Soterius, Inc. As Its Trusted...
Soterius to provide outsourced regulatory strategy and operations services for MAIA Pharmaceuticals, Inc.(PRWeb December 07, 2019)Read the full story at https://www.prweb.com/releases/maia_pharmaceuticals_inc_announces_soterius_inc_as_its_trusted_partner/prweb16773169.htm
Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals - December 7, 2019 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

£15bn of NHS contracts outsourced to private sector since 2015
89% rise in worth of NHS contracts won by private sector Related items fromOnMedica Reports vs policy Conditions in the NHS have worsened, new report shows NHS strain would worsen in the face of a harsh Brexit Workforce shortages and Brexit threaten long-term NHS Plan goals Scotland's new GP Contract cost £160 million more than expected
Source: OnMedica Latest News - December 1, 2019 Category: UK Health Source Type: news

Birmingham University strikes cancelled as low-paid workers secure pay increase
Cleaners, caterers and security guards at Birmingham University are celebrating after securing a pay rise following a series of campus strikes, UNISON announced today (Friday). Three days of strikes planned for Thursday 28 and Friday 29 of November and 2 December have been cancelled. The decision follows staff voting to accept a pay offer of more than 4% for the lowest paid workers and 3% for the highest. Low-paid staff will receive an extra £817 a year with their hourly rate rising by 44p to £9.44. The increase will be backdated to 1 August 2019. The university pay offer exceeds the below inflation 2% increase managers...
Source: UNISON Health care news - November 22, 2019 Category: UK Health Authors: Charlotte Jeffs Tags: News Press release fair pay Jon Richards Source Type: news

More than 30,000 NHS workers are trapped on controversial zero-hour contracts
The trade union GMB said the true number is likely to be higher because statistics do not include outsourced workers. It conducted a review of NHS England job adverts to come to its estimate.
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 19, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Public don ’t want NHS staff outsourced to private companies
The majority of the public (54%) think transferring NHS staff to private companies is unacceptable, according to a UNISON/ComRes poll published today (Monday). The findings also highlight how half (50%) of those polled fear the efficiency of the NHS could be undermined as a direct result of non-medical health employee – including cleaners, porters and catering workers – being outsourced. There has been an increasing trend to transfer staff over to firms outside the NHS, which means they have separate managers as well as different ways of working to those directly employed by the health service. The findings come amid...
Source: UNISON meat hygiene - November 18, 2019 Category: Food Science Authors: Charlotte Jeffs Tags: News Press release dave prentis health NHS privatisation Source Type: news

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