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The Society of Radiographers has recruited a senior official from the probation officers' union to be the Director of Industrial Strategy and Member Relations.

Dean Rogers takes up the post from Warren Town, who has retired after almost 40 years at the SoR.

Dean was assistant general secretary of the National Association of Probation Officers (Napo), which he says "is a union with a professional arm that has more in common with the Society than may at first be obvious."

How the Society of radiographers and other trade unions can resist politicians and pressure groups who set one generation against another will be the theme of a fringe meeting at this year's Trades Union Congress (Brighton, 8-11 September).

Jonathan Charles, a radiographer at St George's Hospital, Tooting, will talk about the 'dangerous perception' that his generation, millenials, are worse off because of the success enjoyed by baby boomers.

The Society of Radiographers is seconding a motion to protect members from bullying and harassment at work. It will be debated at this year's TUC Congress.

The motion by the College of Podiatry asks the General Council and the unions to work together to ensure that the issue is taken seriously, and more is done to protect members.

In the most recent NHS staff survey, more than a quarter of respondents reported at least one incident of bullying and harassment in the previous 12 months.

Delegates at next week's TUC Congress will be asked to join the Society of Radiographers and put pressure on National Health Service trusts in England to stop them outsourcing vital services to subsidiaries and shell companies.

Motion 48, which was passed unanimously at the Society's Annual Delegates Conference earlier this year, highlights concerns that trusts are continuing to offload work to businesses despite being advised by NHS Improvement in 2018 to pause plans to set-up more subsidiaries.