Mandatory COVID vaccination of health and care workers (England)
What is happening? The government has finished a consultation about making COVID vaccines compulsory for health and care staff in England. They intend to bring in a new law to make COVID vaccination mandatory for anyone deployed to deliver Care Quality
NHS pay (England)
The government has imposed a 3% pay rise for all NHS staff in England. UNISON is running an indicative ballot to find out whether members want to take action. UNISON’s reaction to 3% How will the indicative ballot work? What can activists do now? UNISON’s
NHS staff celebrate as holiday pay campaign bears fruit
The story behind UNISON’s efforts to remedy a payroll error that was costing its health members money every time they went on holiday The NHS pay dispute is, sadly, still unresolved. But over the last few weeks some 200,000 UNISON health members in
FREE tuition and qualification for Functional Skills
Level 2 in English and Mathematics This is available to any member who does not have a GCSE or equivalent in English and Mathematics and wants to enter a higher education course, including the LAS Paramedic Program. Times – 10:00 – 15:30
UNISON Greater London Region Celebrating Black History Month
This year the Regional Black Members Committee will be hosting a virtual event to celebrate Black History Month. The theme will be: Breaking the Glass Ceiling. This is an opportunity for the Region to recognise and celebrate Black Lives, which is especially
UNISON health members deliver damning verdict on government’s 3% increase
Health workers in England – angry that rising costs have already wiped out their recent pay rise – have voted to oppose the government over the 3% increase, says UNISON today (Monday). Publishing the results of a consultation exercise that ran over
London Ambulance Estates Strategy & Consolidation
The London Ambulance Service UNISON Branch have written to the new CEO of the London Ambulance Service regarding the service Estates Strategy and consolidation of ambulance station started at the height of the pandemic in 2020. You can download the letter
Welfare of ambulance staff at risk as services face ‘unsustainable’ demand
UNISON has written to ambulance service chiefs calling for urgent support for staff as services face unprecedented 999 call volumes and unsustainable demand from the public. The letter to Daren Mochrie, chair of the Association of Ambulance Chief Executives
3% - That’s what the government has decided NHS staff in England deserve
This pay rise is not only short of the mark; it’s unfair. It only delivers for staff on the very highest bands and leaves the lowest paid stranded below the real Living Wage. Now you have an important choice to make about how we go forward collectively
UNISON launches consultation over NHS rise that meets neither expectations nor real living wage
Rise doesn’t fulfil government’s own pledge to level up The government has failed to honour its own ‘levelling up’ promises with the disappointing 3% pay rise for NHS workers in England, says UNISON. The award announced last week doesn’t meet