A pay rise would be better than any honour for our healthcare workers, says outgoing Unison leader
Dave Prentis appears on this week s Chopper s Politics podcast as he steps down as General Secretary of the trade union
20 January 2021 • 6:00am
Dave Prentis is stepping down as General Secretary of UNISON this week after 20 years leading the union
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The outgoing General Secretary of Unison says that suggestions that healthcare workers should receive some recognition for their contribution to fighting the pandemic are a nice extra, but that it s more important to build back better .
Speaking to Christopher Hope on the Chopper s Politics podcast, which you can listen to on the audio player above, Dave Prentis said When we ve asked our health service members, and we ve got over half a million, not just doctors, nurses, but cleaners, mortuary workers, porters, all of them, they say to us that the clapping was great. It was a morale boost. It was g
“I thought it was a great speech,” Wallace said following Biden’s inauguration ceremony.
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“I thought this was the best inaugural address I ever heard,” he added.
Wallace called attention to the fact that “obviously” the speech “was colored by the emotion” of the Capitol riots two weeks ago, when a mob of former President Trump
“There was a mob of thugs, of insurrectionists, of domestic terrorists on the inaugural stand,” the Fox News host said. “And Joe Biden was saying that democracy prevailed. We were able to get through that, and he was talking about how we need to get through that in the future if we are going to be a united country.”
Read the full text of Joseph R. Biden’s Inaugural Address, as delivered on Jan. 20, 2021: Chief Justice Roberts, Vice President Harris, Speaker Pelosi, Leader.