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UNISON Active Magazine – Summer 2020 SUMMER 2020 UNISON ACTIVE! 1 ACTIVE!MAGAZINE FOR MEMBERS IN YORKSHIRE AND HUMBERSIDE SUMMER 2020 | ISSUE 33 | £3 WWW.UNISON-YORKS.ORG.UK THE FUTURE STARTS HERE P20 UNISON’s impressive new Leeds HQ P3,5,6&10 CORONAVIRUS: YOUR UNION IS WITH YOU All the pictures in this issue were taken before strict rules on social isolation were introduced because of the coronavirus pandemic. The emergency also means that this edition of Active! is digital only. 2 UNISON ACTIVE! SUMMER 2020 COVID-19 Your rights at work & more... The situation is changing quickly - so visit the UNISON Yorkshire & Humberside website for links to the latest guidance As is the case across the country, UNISON branches in our region are advising, supporting and representing members as the nation adjusts to the challenge of COVID-19. These are diffi cult times for everyone, and our members are amongst those on the frontline, doing the critical work they always do in unprecedented circumstances. UNISON is here to help you and your families. Members needing advice relating to the impact of COVID-19 on their employment may fi nd the Y&H regional website useful in answering basic queries. www.unison-yorks.org.uk Links include... • UNISON – Coronavirus: Your rights at work • Public Health England guidance • Local Government Association guidance • NHS Staff Council guidance • ACAS guidance for employers and employees • UNISON: school closures guidance • There for You: Financial help for UNISON members Get in touch Email: [email protected] Tel: 0113 218 2627 SUMMER 2020 UNISON ACTIVE! 3 OUR UNION SO INCREDIBLY PROUD GENERAL SECRETARY Dave Prentis t is hard to continue to fi nd this national emergency, REGIONAL SECRETARY the words to express what or practically supporting John Cafferty Ian extraordinary time this members like you on the REGIONAL CONVENOR is. Coronavirus is disrupting frontline of the response. Wendy Nichols the lives of all of us in ways As I’ve said before, I UNISON Yorkshire & Humberside unimaginable just a few am so incredibly proud of Commerce House, Wade Lane, short weeks ago. Safe to say, how this union is pulling Leeds LS2 8NJ none of us has experienced together. In the most extreme T 08000 857 857 or freephone anything like this and none circumstances the work done textphone 08000 967 968 W www.unison-yorks.org.uk of us really knows what by our members in stepping will happen next. But in up to the ultimate challenge Lines are open 6am-midnight such uncertain times for of saving lives and keeping Monday-Friday and our communities and our essential services running 9am-4pm Saturdays country, there are positives wherever possible is truly and examples of real humbling. And the work EDITOR hope, courage, leadership done by our activists, and our Barrie Clement and selfl essness. staff to support our members CONSULTING EDITOR UNISON is at the forefront in that endeavour is just as Mary Maguire of the response. Whether it’s vital, important CHIEF PHOTOGRAPHER working behind the scenes and impressive. Jim Varney with other unions, the TUC We are witnessing true DAVE PRENTIS and with government to public service every minute GENERAL CONTRIBUTORS make sure the policies are of every day during this SECRETARY Christine Buckley, Peter Carrol, Patrick Dennehy, Ryan Fletcher, Helen Hague, in place to protect workers crisis. Thank you, as ever, for Mary Maguire, Paul Routledge, Jo Seery and workers’ pay during all you are doing. COVER IMAGE Jim Varney Published on behalf of UNISON by Century One Publishing Ltd. Alban Row, 27-31 Verulam Road St. Albans, Herts AL3 4DG T 01727 893 894 NEEDLESS DEATHS F 01727 893 895 E [email protected] The courage, skill and power - although wealth and W www.centuryonepublishing.uk dedication of our power determines who gets ADVERTISING ENQUIRIES members on the front-line tested for the illness. Jonathan Knight of this appalling pandemic NHS and health and social T 01727 739 193 is inspirational. care council staff , unlike E [email protected] After years of contempt - royalty and members of DESIGN AND LAYOUT justifying privatisation and the Government, have not Caitlyn Hobbs government underfunding been tested. T 01727 739 189 - we now see Tory politicians Nor have they been given E [email protected] queueing up to heap praise the protective equipment PRINTED BY on the public sector. they need to work safely. Unison Print The hypocrisy is People are needlessly dying MAGAZINEACTIVE! FOR MEMBERS IN YORKSHIRE AND HUMBERSIDE SUMMER 2020 | ISSUE 33 | £3 1 Copyright reproduction WWW.UNISON-YORKS.ORG.UK shameless. Austerity has as a result. P20 in whole or part by been a systematic drive to Meanwhile the whole any means without privatise public services, country shows its gratitude written permission of the publisher is erode our members’ wages and respect for our heroic strictly forbidden. and enrich Tory supporters. members who are keeping UNISON and the THE FUTURE STARTS HERE But the lies behind all the society functioning and publisher accept UNISON’s impressive new Leeds HQ P3,5,6&10 no responsibility for CORONAVIRUS pain and misery infl icted on risking their own health. YOUR UNION : All the pictures in this issue were taken before strictIS rules on social isolation were introduced because errors, omissions of the coronavirus pandemic. The emergency also meansWITH that this editionYOU of Active! is digital only. society has been exposed. The Government thinks or the consequences Suddenly we are all in this it can ride this wave until thereof. together (remember David the crisis ends, only to WENDY Cameron?) - interdependent revert to its attacks on NICHOLS © UNISON 2020 REGIONAL and equal. public sector funding. CONVENOR That’s because this virus It needs to think again. does not respect wealth and Things have changed. W.Nichols 4 UNISON ACTIVE! SUMMER 2020 NEWS RETHINK AT ACADEMIES TRUST UNISON has won a rethink of a major shake-up at a UNISON area organiser Sarah Keig said that while multi-academy trust which would have led to wage management had kept both UNISON and the GMB cuts of up to £5000, dramatic changes to jobs and an informed about the job evaluation exercise, neither increase in the gender pay gap. union had been consulted about the details. After talks involving unions, management and the Sarah visited most of the schools in Yorkshire Local Government Association, the March 1 deadline & Humberside to speak to members and she has been shifted forward to September 1. contacted other regions which did the same. “The The Wakefield-based Outwood Grange overwhelming feedback was that whilst OGAT had Academies Trust (OGAT) which operates 32 been telling the trade unions that consultation with schools across three UNISON regions - Yorkshire staff had taken place, it hadn’t. There was a lot of & Humberside, Northern and the East Midlands - anger amongst staff as some are set to lose thousands initially refused to delay implementation. But under of pounds because of the changes to their jobs. There pressure from UNISON it has since agreed to look were also concerns about the actual job roles, which again at its proposals. in some cases have changed dramatically.” COME AND HAVE A FLUTTER!! SATURDAY AFTERNOON AUGUST 1ST 2020 Coronavirus permitting why not join other UNISON members, their families and friends at our union’s Doncaster Raceday on Saturday August 1, 2020? It’s a great day out and there’s a special deal for UNISON members. You can get two grandstand tickets for the price of one at just £13. Members can upgrade to the county stand – two tickets for a total of £30 (usually £32.50 each). To book call 01302 3042000, quote UNISON RACEDAY OFFER, your membership number or UNISON branch code. Tickets are on sale now – offer closes at 5pm July 24, 2020. There will be a refund on all tickets if racing is suspended. NEWS SUMMER 2020 UNISON ACTIVE! 5 COVID-19 PAY CUT SCRAPPED Following massive pressure from UNISON, The trust announced that trainees will be Sheffi eld Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation paid at the proper rate during the crisis and Trust reversed a disgraceful decision to cut the when training restarts they’ll be able to pay of trainee nursing associates and end their resume their places. training. Regional organiser Sue Cookman said the The trainees received letters telling them that, decision had been a “PR disaster” that “fl ew in John Campbell: because of the coronavirus crisis, their training the face of government guidelines”. Nationwide, Testing would stop, with no resumption guaranteed. it has been decided that the vital work that times ahead Nursing associate training primarily involves trainees are doing might count toward their on-the-job learning. training. As part of the draconian decision they would Branch secretary John Campbell welcomed the also be expected to take a pay cut of up to £1,700 trust’s change of heart, adding: “The members – even as they were deployed to the front-line in will be hugely reassured by this, as am I. the fi ght against COVID-19. “I hope that we can continue to work However following some fantastic joint constructively together with the trust, in working between the region and the partnership in the testing times that surely Sue Cookman: branch, and with members showing lie ahead.” NHS Trust’s “great solidarity and resilience,” the ‘PR disaster’ move was scrapped. P10: practical support. BOOST FOR FRONTLINE STAFF Rotherham Council is the latest local authority to sign up to Regional secretary John Caff erty and regional manager UNISON’s ethical care charter. Karen Loughlin both stressed how Covid-19 had Council leader Chris Read joined UNISON general highlighted the importance of home care workers.
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