Social workers going into care homes must be vaccinated against Covid, government decides communitycare.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from communitycare.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Carers: Alternative Futures Group employees have won the right not to be disciplined for taking part in strike action CARE workers at an East Lancashire provider have won the right not to be disciplined for taking part in strike action. This comes after a tribunal ruled on Wednesday June 2 that Alternative Futures Group, which has facilities in Blackburn, Burnley and Accrington, did not have the right to take disciplinary action against staff who took part in strikes. The ruling, which will affect workers across the entire care sector, was prompted over a case brought by AFG care worker Fiona Mercer who said that her employers disciplined, suspended, and prevented from going into work after she took part in a long-running dispute over the care providers plans to cut payment for sleep-in shifts.
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By Iain Watson
image captionLen McCluskey has been a major force in Labour politics for a decade
Unite is beginning the contest to elect its new leader. So what hurdles do the candidates face?
It s no longer the biggest union in the UK - that accolade belongs to public service union Unison - but it is the largest affiliate to Labour.
And with around 1.2 million members, Unite is very influential.
It contributed £3m to Labour s coffers in the run-up to the last general election.
But its future direction is about to be contested.
Political voice
Three of the contenders for the top job - general secretary - are on the Left, but each will have a very distinct campaign.
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Social care: only a fully public system will do Submitted by AWL on 16 February, 2021 - 8:14
Author: Sacha Ismail
Recent Covid data has underlined the alarming state of social care in the UK. Yet the biggest union of social care workers, Unison, has responded by allying with the very people overseeing this dire situation.
Not that far off a quarter of the UK’s virus-connected deaths so far, over 26,000, have been in care homes. That includes over 7,000 this year.
Meanwhile between March and December there were 79 deaths per 100,000 social care
workers, as opposed to 31.4 among workers in general (among women, 35.9 vs 16.8). Among frontline care home and home care workers, the figures were 109.9 for men and 47.1 for women.
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