Unison chief warns this could be year of industrial action

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : In advance of this week's annual Trades Union Congress, she called on Keir Starmer to put forward a bolder plan of his own on social care, pressing for the Labour leader to "go further" and pledge an end to the profit-making in the sector.
52% : McAnea said Johnson's promise last week of extra billions for social care funded by an increase in national insurance (NI) rates was inadequate as there was "nothing fundamentally changing" in the way care was commissioned or delivered - or raising rates of pay for staff, many of whom are on the minimum wage.
42% : Starmer has attacked the plan for being "a sticking plaster over a gaping wound", as it did not specify how it would overhaul the sector and much of the tax rise would be used to fund the NHS rather than social care in the early years.
41% : Christina McAnea, who took on the role at Unison in January, also told Boris Johnson that his "smoke-and-mirrors" offer on social care and the mandatory Covid-19 jab policy for care workers was putting the sector at risk of collapse, with many unvaccinated staff having already received notice they were at risk of dismissal.

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