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Care workers to urge Wales TUC to back national care service campaign

UNISON care workers will today urge the public to back a campaign for a national care service for Wales.

They will bring their campaign to a Wales TUC annual conference fringe event focused on social care and securing agreement from the country’s union federation for their public campaign to remove all profit from social care.

Rhondda-based care worker Nicola Irwin, who will speak at the gathering in Llandudno, north Wales, said: “Care staff love helping people, but the wages are scandalously low.

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