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The crisis in care

A care worker speaks about the terrible reality of the government’s attacks on homecare

Magazine on the UNISON National site.
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Government to launch care investigation as MPs debate pay

The government has said it will instruct HMRC to investigate the widespread illegal underpayment of care workers, after work by UNISON and Labour MPs

Article on the UNISON National site.
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Fair pay for care workers

Care UK workers take their case to Westminster as MPs debate low pay for care workers

Article on the UNISON National site.
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Ask your MP to help end illegal pay for care workers this Wednesday

UNISON is urging members to ask their MPs to attend a debate this Wednesday (5 November) on the scandal of homeworkers being paid less than the minimum wage

Article on the UNISON National site.
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Care UK strikers hit the streets of London

Striking Care UK workers took their struggle to the streets of London today, before being welcomed at UNISON Centre by members of the union’s NEC and general secretary Dave Prentis

Article on the UNISON National site.
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Lancashire county council signs up to Ethical Care Charter

Lancashire county council is the latest council to sign up to UNISON’s Ethical Care Charter

Article on the UNISON National site.
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MP backs UNISON’s ethical care charter

‘Homecare staff look after our parents, our brothers and sisters, our friends’ says David Crausby as he signs petition urging Bolton council to sign charter

Article on the UNISON National site.
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Care UK members set for new strike

UNISON members at Care UK in Doncaster will begin new strike action tomorrow for two weeks, after the company refused to even discuss a wage rise this year

Article on the UNISON National site.
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Figures on home care pay trigger shock and dismay

Survey shows 19% of councils in England do not know whether the homecare providers they commission pay their staff the national minimum wage

Article on the UNISON National site.
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EPSU leader spells out the Europe we want

EPSU general secretary Jan Willem Goudriaan’s message to UNISON’s local government conference was that we could change Europe for the betterment of the majority of its people

Article on the UNISON National site.
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