Delegates back calls for improved pay and sick pay

Moving a motion on the future of the national minimum wage on Thursday morning, Linda Hobson of the Northern region started by looking back to the opening motion of national delegate conference on Tuesday – UNISON at 30 – and how it had looked at the union’s successes.
One of those successes, she told delegates, “must be the implementation of the national minimum wage under the last Labour government.
“Our gen sec at the time, Rodney Bickerstaffe, was absolutel