End-of-year accounts for 2022 – branch audits
Branch treasurers have received notification of the procedures to apply on the closedown of the Online Branch Accounts package (OLBA) for 2022.
The branch authorisation sheet, which includes the branch auditors’ statement, must be signed by the branch auditor(s) and then scanned and uploaded into OLBA. The branch treasurer and branch auditor(s) can print, sign and upload separate copies of the authorisation sheet.
This is the procedure which was introduced in 2021. Your treasurer will also be required to upload statements for all non-Unity Trust bank/building society accounts.
Branch auditors act as representatives of yo...
Source: UNISON meat hygiene - February 16, 2023 Category: Food Science Authors: Demetrios Matheou Tags: Article News audits branch finances branch officers branch treasurer branches Source Type: news
Fair pay is the way to protect public services as high inflation continues
Commenting on new figures published today (Wednesday), showing inflation remains near a four-decade high, UNISON general secretary Christina McAnea said:
“There’s no hint of an end to the price-rise nightmare for millions.
“Wage increases are miles off the recent leaps in food and energy costs. It’s even worse for public service employees.
“Ministers have to understand that unless workers are paid fairly to help them weather increased prices, essential services will never recover for the public.
“Chronic staff shortages in health, local government and education cannot be fixed if workers continue to quit for ...
Source: UNISON meat hygiene - February 15, 2023 Category: Food Science Authors: Anthony Barnes Tags: News Press release cost of living inflation public sector pay Source Type: news
Put NHS pay right – NHS strike rolling report
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9:30am As with the previous strikes, UNISON crews will still be providing cover and responding to high priority calls throughout the day.
At Soundwell Ambulance Station the picket line is just over an hour old and staff are responding to a Category 1 call 🚑
Patient safety is always the priority. #PutNHSPayRight pic.twitter.com/hNLnvb8PBs
— UNISON South West (@UNISONSW) February 10, 2023
9:00am Even if the weather isn’t – socials are certainly starting to...
Source: UNISON meat hygiene - February 10, 2023 Category: Food Science Authors: Simon Jackson Tags: Article ambulance strikes nhs strikes PutNHSPayRight Source Type: news
Recap: Second day of EA strikes
Environment Agency workers across the country walked out yesterday, in their second day of strike action over pay this year.
UNISON’s head of environment, Donna Rowe-Merriman, said: “EA members will not be ignored on the issue of pay any longer. They have taken strike action to ensure their issues are recognised by the public – and by their employer.
“Our members will not be pushed from pillar to post – they want action from this government to resolve pay, now, for their families and to prevent more staff from leaving the agency.
“The onus lies with the chancellor – to allow the agency to engage fully wit...
Source: UNISON meat hygiene - February 9, 2023 Category: Food Science Authors: Simon Jackson Tags: Article Environment environment agency Environment agency strike strikes Source Type: news
NEC hears of ongoing industrial action across the union
The first National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of 2023 heard a long list of all the industrial action that members are currently taking part in, across the UK.
“It’s been a very busy few months,” admitted general secretary Christina McAnea. “I’ll be heading to the South West for our next ambulance strike day on Friday, and we’re working on keeping up the huge media attention and public support that our strikes have attracted so far.
“Our health team, AGSs and regional secretaries have also spent many hours supporting our members on picket lines, and this support will continue throughout the dispute.”
Be...
Source: UNISON meat hygiene - February 9, 2023 Category: Food Science Authors: Martin Cullen Tags: Article ambulance strikes anti-strike bill Environment agency strike NEC Source Type: news
Higher education conference debates ongoing pay dispute
UNISON’s higher education activists met in Newcastle yesterday, for their first in-person conference since the onset of the pandemic. With workers experiencing “the worst cost of living crisis in 30 years”, pay was at the heart of their debates.
Since 2009, pay for higher education (HE) staff has lost around 28% of its value, as a result of below inflation rises year on year. Soaring inflation in 2022 brought this situation to crisis point, leaving members in HE facing real hardship.
The union remains in dispute over 2022/23 pay, after the University and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA) imposed a 3% pay increase...
Source: UNISON meat hygiene - February 3, 2023 Category: Food Science Authors: Demetrios Matheou Tags: Article News 2023 National Higher Education Conference higher education pay Source Type: news
The growing importance of the EA
Discussion highlighted the key role of the EA in meeting the UK’s climate obligations and emphasised that a well-resourced agency should be something all parties can agree on in order to ensure the country maintains an environment that is fit for the future, as well as being prepared in the event of flooding and other environmental disasters.
Within this discussion, the need for higher pay was recognised as key for the EA to be able to operate.
Pay in the EA
However, while the agency is now a fourth emergency service, staff have been underpaid and undervalued by the government for over a decade.
The attendees heard that ...
Source: UNISON meat hygiene - February 1, 2023 Category: Food Science Authors: Simon Jackson Tags: Article Environment environment agency Environment agency strike Source Type: news
Unions join forces for Environment Agency strike next week
Thousands of Environment Agency employees belonging to UNISON and Prospect are to take strike action next week in the growing dispute about pay, say the unions today (Tuesday).
Staff working in river inspection, flood forecasting, coastal risk management and pollution control will stage a 12-hour strike on Wednesday (8 February) starting at 7am.
In addition, for 12 hours either side of the walkout, Environment Agency employees will escalate their ongoing work to rule by withdrawing from incident response rotas, say the unions.
This action short of a strike starts at 7pm on Tuesday, and kicks in again immediately at the e...
Source: UNISON meat hygiene - January 31, 2023 Category: Food Science Authors: Anthony Barnes Tags: News Press release environment agency Source Type: news
Solving workforce emergency now is key to the future of the NHS
Commenting on the government’s proposals to boost NHS emergency care published today (Monday), UNISON head of health Sara Gorton said:
“The government has at last acknowledged that there are deep problems in emergency care.
“But if the Prime Minister wants to take credit for fixing emergency care next winter, he must first resolve the workforce crisis happening now.
“There’s nothing to deliver the urgent retention plan needed to stop staff leaving jobs in the NHS. Nor is there anything about boosting pay to prevent the current industrial unrest from spreading.
“Without halting further strikes o...
Source: UNISON meat hygiene - January 30, 2023 Category: Food Science Authors: Anthony Barnes Tags: News Press release nhs pay Source Type: news
Proud to be in a union – striking in the North West
On a chilly day in the North West of England, UNISON members in the NHS continued their industrial action over pay and the crisis facing the health service. Steve Forrest captured a flavour of the third day of pickets.
We start our look back at yesterday’s strike in the region at the Eccles Ambulance Station in Greater Manchester.
And on to Huyton Ambulance Station in Merseyside, where members were joined by UNISON president Andrea Egan.
And then to the Liverpool Royal Hospital, where UNISON members drummed up a real Mersey beat.
The article Proud to be in a union – striking in the North West...
Source: UNISON meat hygiene - January 24, 2023 Category: Food Science Authors: Amanda Kendal Tags: Article News Industrial action nhs strikes Put NHS pay right Source Type: news
New money for NHS pay from Treasury could end dispute, says UNISON
The chancellor can halt escalating strike action and begin solving the staffing emergency currently causing the NHS such harm if he comes up with new money to pay health workers fairly, says UNISON today (Monday).
But if Jeremy Hunt continues to resist appeals to release extra cash and kickstart talks with unions to end the strikes, the NHS dispute could run for many months, says the union.
This warning comes as up to 15,000 UNISON ambulance workers walk out later today for the third time in five weeks over pay and staffing, says UNISON. They’ll be joined by as many as 5,000 of their NHS colleagues at two...
Source: UNISON meat hygiene - January 23, 2023 Category: Food Science Authors: Sophie Goodchild Tags: News Press release nhs pay Source Type: news
Blog: Why won ’ t the chancellor resolve the NHS strike?
UNISON’s industrial action in the NHS intensifies this week. Today is our third day of strikes this winter in England, and NHS staff in Northern Ireland will be out on Thursday.
Ambulance and hospital staff are walking out again over the government’s failure to deliver fair pay. Today’s morning news bulletins are already featuring our picket lines, and our head of health, Sara Gorton, was on breakfast news helping to get our #PutNHSPayRight message out to the public.
We’re also in the middle of re-balloting ambulance branches that fell just short of the government’s draconian ballot thresholds in our ballot last ...
Source: UNISON meat hygiene - January 23, 2023 Category: Food Science Authors: Christina McAnea Tags: General secretary's blog News NHS nhs strikes Put NHS pay right strikes industrial action Source Type: news
From the frontline to the breadline – NHS strike rolling report
10:05am And members are out again in Yorkshire and Humberside too.
It's strike day again, with thousands of @unisonyh @unisontheunion paramedics and ambulance workers taking industrial action. It’s not just about pay, it’s about recruiting and retaining skilled staff, and maintaining patient safety. #solidarity pic.twitter.com/EOxfZ2Zsi9
— Unison Hull & East Riding Health (@unisonHERHealth) January 23, 2023
9:55am A big UNISON ‘hello!’ to our members out on the picket lines in the South West – they really do need a brazier today!
First pickets of the day. Ambulance workers in Bristol an...
Source: UNISON meat hygiene - January 23, 2023 Category: Food Science Authors: Amanda Kendal Tags: Article News Industrial action NHS nhs strikes PutNHSPayRight Source Type: news
Setting pulses racing: the Reading scientists perfecting broad bean bread
By making their nutritious bread taste like normal white loaves, scientists aim to help disadvantagedIt ’s creamy-white in colour with a deep brown crust. It has a mild floury taste but with a moreish salty tang. It crisps up nicely in a toaster, and it’s the perfect accompaniment to butter, jam or hummus.This is bread – but not as you know it. Scientists at the University of Reading are finding ways to make British diets far more nutritious and sustainable by stealth, replacing the soya flour, and some of the wheat, with broad beans – also known as faba or fava beans.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - January 22, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Rachel Hall Tags: Bread Food Science UK news Health Farming Diets and dieting University of Reading Source Type: news
Carol Sewell wins 2023 UNISON Nelson Mandela Award
Carol Sewell has been presented with the 2023 UNISON Nelson Mandela Award for over two decades of service to the union movement.
UNISON president Andrea Egan presented the award to Ms Sewell at this year’s national Black members’ conference.
UNISON presents the award every year to someone who has ‘gone above and beyond to represent Black members’.
Ms Sewell has championed race equality and racial representation within the union, sat on the TUC race relations committee and anti-racism task force, was elected BAME labour representative on the national Labour forum, and was the union’s vice president in 20...
Source: UNISON meat hygiene - January 21, 2023 Category: Food Science Authors: Janey Starling Tags: Article News 2023 National Black Members Conference nelson mandela award Source Type: news
