Hot Topics
Here you'll find a list of local & national hot topics; with links to dedicated pages and resources..
Latest Hot Topics
- Basildon Hospital - UNISON response
Failing Foundation Trust - leaves patients at risk.
UNISON, the UK’s largest public sector trade union, today called for Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS foundation trust to be taken back under NHS control, and called for a public enquiry into patient care at the hospital. Read more....
- UNISON Chief congratulates Leeds victorious strikers
Unison & GMB workers win fight to protect thier pay.
This is a tremendous victory and I congratulate UNISON and GMB members who stood firm and determined during 11 weeks. I know how much hardship they and their families faced. But their fight was worth it. Read more..
- Whistleblower awarded
6 figure damages after being hounded out of job
UNISON is determined to clamp down on victimisation and sex discrimination and will hold employers to account.
An equalities officer, who was harassed and sacked for blowing the whistle on management, has been awarded £442,466 in compensation for loss of earnings, with help from UNISON.
- Hospitals to
replace nurses with lower paid assistants to cut costs.
A number of NHS hospitals are planning to replace an increasing number of trained nurses with cheaper, unregistered ‘nurses’ ..
Leeds Teaching Hospital and East Kent Hospitals University Foundation are among those trusts known to be making or planning such changes. Read more.. - NHS organisations
hit staff numbers to save costs!!
There has been a big jump in the number of NHS organisations planning to cut staff.
The HSJ magazine’s quarterly survey of NHS finance directors shows the proportion planning staff cuts has increased from 11 per cent in June 53 per cent at the start of October. Read more.. - Our trust's Foundation Trust
equivalent Application.
What we are doing about FTe.
Unison & your Unison branch are opposed to FT or FTe, for many reasons. We have put together a working party to investigate FTe, scrutinze our trust's application for FTe and feedback our findings to our members.
See our dedicated FTe page for more details. - Stop Bullying NOW!!
Are you being Bullied at Work?
Bullying, is perpetrated in a variety of ways; sometimes subtle, sometimes outrageous. Perpetrators include; colleagues bullying colleagues to managers bullying managers, even managers bullying whole departments.
See our dedicated Stop bullying now page. - Tax relief on Unison subscriptions.
Qualifying health professionals may get tax relief on their Unison subscriptions.
If you are a member of UNISON and work in healthcare, you may be entitled to claim tax relief on your UNISON subscriptions. After a 12 year campaign, UNISON has reached agreement with Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs to bring us into line with members of other professional organisations like the Royal Colleges of Nursing, Midwives and Surgeons whose members are able to claim tax relief on their subscriptions. .
Read more at this dedicated page. - Positively Public
Campaigning for quality public services
Positively Public has campaigned on a range of public service issues, from the quality of school meals and hospital cleaning to the promotion of best practice. We have won widespread recognition and support for our evidence-based critiques of policies such as the Private Finance Initiative and have been successful in securing a number of important policy changes. .
Link to dedicated page. - Defending and
improving pensions.
UNISON is working to defend good pension schemes.
We negotiate changes to improve pensions on behalf of our members, and defend the pensions of members who are transferred between employers - from the public to the private sector..
Find out more on this dedicated page. - NHS Outsourcing -
Driven by Dogma
Unison is calling on Government to; ‘think again’ about its NHS outsourcing and privatisation agenda. The NHS is wasting precious time and money introducing reforms that are failing to deliver better services to patients or value for money. We calling on the Government to ‘think again’ about its NHS outsourcing and privatisation agenda, in the light of a damning new report by the Office for Public Management (OPM) – ‘Driven by Dogma’*.. Link to Pdf document.