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Job Vacancy in Branch Office. Closing date for applications 7 October 2011

Call on the president of Malawi to respect human rights and to investigate the killings of 19 protestors. Read the document from your Branch International Officer.

Keep The NHS - Watch this brilliant video by documentary American film maker - Michael Moore

Costs of personal care plans are unrealistic - Read the letter in the Times on 10 February 2011 from councillors across the country, including Somerset.

You should have received a letter from the Chief Executive dated 23rd December 2010. Read your branch's update and comments on the points made in the letter

Keep The Post Public - People are reacting to the coalition government's plans to privatise Royal Mail and break the historic link with the Post Office - putting the future of the Post Office network in jeopardy.
Post offices are still closing every week, and government plans do nothing to prevent even more.

Read the motion sent to South West Local Government Service Group Committee and the South West Regional Committee of UNISON

“Social care and the NHS do not exist in silos. One impacts directly on the other.” Kieran Mullan, from the Patients Association, said: in the Telegraph.

Osborne 'exaggerated debt crisis' - Read what Britain's Nobel Prize winning economist, Professor Christopher Pissarides says

Lobby your MP to fight the CPI switch. Fight the Government's wish to revalue state benefits and public sector pensions by CPI rather than RPI (CPI generally being 0.7% per annum less) by printing off and sending to your MP our attached template letter

Tell them what you think about the proposed cuts
Write to your Councillor, MP and MEP. Here are some templates produced by UNISON for you to use if you wish

IBM-led SAP "model" business venture makes loss

Busting the non-jobs myth - read UNISON's Press Release

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