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Inverclyde Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP) has been recognised for its progress in transitioning from analogue to digital telecare.

One-day national stoppage by public sector workers in Greece against anti-labour law criminalising picketing and removing limits to working hours; teachers in Portugal hold week-long strike over pay, contracts and for more staff; Iranian regime introduces draconian legislation as protests and strikes mark anniversary of death of Mahsa Amini at the hands of morality police; teachers in Plateau State Nigeria plan walkout over salary arrears but union have not set date

Wildcat strikes by civil servants at Romanian Ministry of Finance against job losses and pay cuts continue as union tries to take control; strikes and protests across war-torn Syria amid cost-living-crisis as government lifts fuel subsidies; South African municipal workers continue wildcat pay strike in defiance of union and victimisations in City of Tshwane

Council tax is due to rise on 1 April for many people, another turn of the screw for those already struggling with the cost of living crisis.

Teachers strikes continue in Europe over pay, conditions and funding, as Norway’s Labour government moves to impose strike ban, Hungarian government imposes minimum service levels; UK dock strikes in Liverpool and Felixstowe over pay and conditions as criminal barristers’ strike continues; oil workers threaten to strike and join continuing protests in Iran after death of young woman at hands of morality police; Air traffic controllers in 18 African countries go on unofficial 48-hour strike over working conditions