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Unison leadership candidate McKenzie calls for creation of national care service
Care workers Jane Ward (left) and Cath Roe on their rounds at Ashwood Court residential care home in Lowton, Warrington

UNISON leadership candidate Roger McKenzie has called for the creation of a national care service and an anti-privatisation unit to protect the health sector from damaging outsourcing.  

Nominees for the post of general secretary of the public services union, which has more than a million members, were surveyed by activists on how they would support black health and social-care workers if elected. 

Grassroots Black Left Health Workers Group (GBL-HWG) wrote to all four candidates during the election, which closes later this month. 

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