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Commenting on the failure of the Withdrawal Bill, UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis said:
“Theresa May must stop trying to railroad her awful Withdrawal Agreement through Parliament. It’s been rejected three times, but still the Prime Minister won’t take no for an answer.
“The PM has tried to impose a deal that no-one truly believes is good for the country. But the government can’t keep repeating the same mistakes and hoping for a different outcome.
“The government must now reach out to everyone – other political parties, businesses and unions – to find a way forward that can unite the whole country. Monday’s votes offer MPs another vital opportunity to find a consensus – but time is running out.
“The country’s future relationship with the EU should not be decided by whoever wins the battle to be the next Conservative leader.
“It’s time for a general election to settle Brexit once and for all – and give struggling public services a chance to break free from austerity.”
Notes to editors:
– UNISON is the UK’s largest union, with more than 1.3 million members providing public services – in education, local government, the NHS, police service and energy. They are employed in both the public and private sectors.
Media contacts:
Liz Chinchen T: 0207 121 5463 M: 07778 158175 E: l.chinchen@unison.co.uk
Sophie Goodchild T: 0207 121 5546 M: 07767 325595 E: s.goodchild@unison.co.uk
The article It’s time for an election to settle Brexit, says UNISON first appeared on the UNISON National site.
The phrase “mad as a March hare” is said to stem from the excited behaviour of the European hare during its breeding season, which peaks in the month of March.
For anyone living in UK – and the whole of Europe for that matter – the phrase may now forever be associated with British MPs. For most of us, the month was dominated by the madness of Brexit as it came to its heated head. As March closed the UK hadn’t left the EU on time, but the shenanigans dominated the headlines.
That said, UNISON’s general secretary Dave Prentis sagely reminded members that Brexit wasn’t the only issue the country faced.
“The tragedy for those who need a better health service, well-resourced schools and action on crime is that the Prime Minister and her government are the ones failing to act – or worse, they are the root cause of so many of society’s most pressing problems,” he commented.
“Yet the continuing Brexit-based incompetence means no other crisis is receiving the scrutiny it should.”
Throughout the month, UNISON found itself routinely trying to address some of those problems.
Delegates at the union’s community conference spoke, among other things, of the poverty wages and exploitative working practices that have scarred the social care workforce for decades. They vowed to keep pressure on the government to address a multitude of employment issues in the sector.
Elsewhere, the union highlighted two reports: one revealed the full, devastating impact of council cuts during a decade of austerity – not least the vast selling of council land and buildings; the other, the effects of the same period on struggling families, who are losing hundreds of pounds a year as a result of changes to child benefit.
At the front line, more than 40 staff at Liverpool Women’s Hospital – cleaners, catering staff, porters and security officers – joined a strike provoked by the refusal of private company OCS to pay them the NHS rate for the job.
And UNISON asked Environment Agency staff – where staff have faced a 20% real-terms pay cut since 2010 – whether they would be prepared to take industrial action in an effort to win more than the 1.3% that’s been imposed on them by the employer.
Ever leading the way on equal pay, in March the union also launched its Bridge the Gap campaign, which offers an online tool that helps activists take practical steps to make their workplace more equal.
The campaign is typical of UNISON’s efforts to improve our madly unfair society. And no month goes by without such efforts being rewarded.
In March, the Glasgow women who have just won their historic battle for equal pay had a second reason to celebrate when presented with the Editor’s Award at the Scotswomen of the Year Awards, presented by Glasgow’s Evening Times newspaper.
And the month saw a landmark for another issue on which UNISON is deeply committed, when the University of Manchester became the 5,000th living wage employer.
The article March madness first appeared on the UNISON National site.
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Yesterday‘s damning report by the chief inspector of probation should be the final nail in the coffin of the failed privatisation of the service under former justice secretary Chris Grayling.
Dame Glenys Stacey’s report did not mince its words about the system, following the split of probation in England and Wales into a National Probation Service for “serious” offenders and 14 private “community rehabilitation companies”, or CRCs, to handle all other probation services.
She called the system “irredeemably flawed,” adding: “Above all, it has proved well-nigh impossible to reduce probation to a set of contractual requirements.
“Professional probation work is so much more than simply a series of transactions and, when treated in that way, is distorted and diminished.”
She highlighted a number of specific issues, including:
UNISON national officer Ben Priestley said the report “confirms what UNISON has been saying for many years: the privatisation has totally failed.
“That is why UNISON is calling again on the government to end the private contracts and reunify probation as a locally run and locally managed service.”
The service was also the subject of a damning report from the National Audit Office at the beginning of March, and UNISON says “it is very difficult to see that there is any life left in the 2014 plan, which went under the name of Transforming Rehabilitation”.
The government was forced to end the current CRC contracts early and carried out a consultation last year on plans to re-let the contracts in 2020.
But UNISON notes that ministers have yet to respond to that consultation, “so there is still time for them to reflect on the devastating criticisms in the two reports.
“UNISON believes that the plans to re-let the CRC contracts are now totally lacking in any credibility.
“We are calling on the justice secretary to do the right thing and to bring all probation services back into the public sector in a reunified and locally run service.”
Check out our Let’s Fix Probation campaign
The article Chief inspector’s report ‘final nail in coffin of probation privatisation’ first appeared on the UNISON National site.
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UNISON has extended the deadline for registering delegates to June’s key conferences – national delegate conference (18-21 June), local government (16-17 June), energy (17 June) and water, environment and transport (16 June) – to Thursday 4 April.
All these conferences are taking place in Liverpool.
This follows problems with the union’s RMS membership system during the past week, which have in turn affected branches’ ability to register delegates for the conferences on the online conferences system, or OCS.
So, any branch sending delegates to any of these conferences, now needs to register them on the OCS by:
Please encourage your branches to register delegates as soon as possible within the new deadline dates.
All other conference deadlines remain the same.
The article Conference delegate registration extended first appeared on the UNISON National site.
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Commenting on the Prime Minister’s address to the 1922 Committee, UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis said: “Theresa May can leave Downing Street, but the country won’t notice a difference while the Conservative Party remains in power.
“The UK doesn’t need to change the DJ, it needs to change the record. The people must now be given a say on who runs the country in a general election.
“In the meantime, MPs must find a way to protect jobs, wages, public services, rights at work and peace in Northern Ireland. Theresa May’s flawed deal fails all these vital tests.
“A customs union and involvement in the single market would respect the referendum and do what’s best for the country. Norway+ and Labour’s Brexit deal would both do this. MPs should get behind these options and end the Brexit paralysis.”
Notes to editors:
– UNISON is the UK’s largest union, with more than 1.3 million members providing public services – in education, local government, the NHS, police service and energy. They are employed in both the public and private sectors.
Media contacts:
Liz Chinchen T: 0207 121 5463 M: 07778 158175 E: l.chinchen@unison.co.uk
The article Change the record, not just the DJ first appeared on the UNISON National site.
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