409,000 workers report suffering from a new case of work-related stress, depression, or anxiety in 2024/25, again a significant increase on the previous year’s figure of 300,000.
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South East Telecom Branch
Covering: The Isle of Wight, Portsmouth, Worthing, Horsham, Crawley, Haywards Heath, Burgess Hill Brighton & Hove, Eastbourne, Hastings, Uckfield, Crowborough Sevenoaks, East Grinstead, Oxted, Maidstone, Gravesend, Chatham, Ashford, Sittingbourne, Canterbury, Folkestone, Dover, Margate and surrounding areas.
This site mainly covers BT people but it also has information for employees of other companies that we represent.
"The trade unions are a long-established and essential part of our national life. We take our stand by these pillars of our British society as it has gradually developed and evolved itself, of the right of individual labouring men to adjust their wages and conditions by collective bargaining, including the right to strike."
- Winston Churchill
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Bowel Cancer Awareness Month.
April is Bowel Cancer Awareness Month. When diagnosed early, nine in ten people survive bowel cancer. That’s why Bowel Cancer UK are asking everyone to help them raise awareness of...
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Shorter Working Week
Despite the growing national and international movement calling for fewer working hours with no loss of pay, and the expanding body of evidence showing benefits for workers and employers alike,...
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Shorter Working Week
What is the campaign for a shorter working week? The Telecoms and Financial Services constituency is campaigning for a shorter working week- a meaningful reduction in hours each week for...
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Time to Talk Day 2026 – ‘Brave the big talk’.
Every year Mind and Rethink Mental Illness promote Time to Talk Day – Mind which is ‘a day for friends, families, communities, and workplaces to come together to talk, listen...
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