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STAFF at the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) have launched a formal petition for union recognition following months of growing disenchantment with the watchdog’s leadership, according to their union.
Unite said today that staff want to be represented by an independent trade union after receiving new pay proposals that would leave three out of four workers with a 10 per cent pay cut.
The union revealed it has seen a significant rise in membership at the authority and called on bosses to heed the concerns of its workforce.
With 121,000 vacancies and 44.8% of staff feeling unwell from work stress, the NHS 10-year plan will not succeed unless the government takes immediate action to retain existing staff, writes ANNETTE MANSELL-GREEN
‘People up and down the country are asking whose side is the Labour government on and coming up with the answer: not workers,’ Unite general secretary Sharon Graham says