Something that’s worth remembering in #HeartUnions Week is how much good employment rights, good EDI, and strong unions are intrinsically a health issue. I would go so far to say that any serious national health plan should have unions at its heart.
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All that “red tape” on working conditions. Those health and safety concerns - they are about keeping the workforce safe and healthy - they are about keeping the workforce in work and out of hospital.
All those workers rights - those restrictions on maximum working hours, the entitlement to breaks, to holidays, to sick leave without recrimination- those are about safeguarding workers’ health, both mental and physical, for the long term.
And all those extra policies and entitlements; to parental leave, carers’ leave, flexible working…. They are recognition that workers are whole people, with lives and responsibilities outside work, that workers are not “severed” and employers have a duty to the whole individual all that entails.
So, in #HeartUnions week, remember that unions are so much more than the argumentative disrupters the media would like to paint them. Unions are the beating heart of a thriving workforce, and the life blood to a healthy nation
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