MPs praise UNISON’s campaign to support care workers who are ‘illegally’ under-paid
The article Care workers continue to be denied the minimum wage first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
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MPs praise UNISON’s campaign to support care workers who are ‘illegally’ under-paid
The article Care workers continue to be denied the minimum wage first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
Union is seeking to protect youth services ‘for the long term’
The article UNISON teams with young people to fight cuts to youth services first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
UK manufacturing has rapidly deteriorated to the point that it is now among the worst performers in the developed world, a shocking new report revealed today (March 24). The UK manufacturing…Read more…
Employers’ initial offer to higher education unions does not include the living wage
The article Higher education unions reject initial pay offer for 2016-17 first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
Commenting on EDF Energy’s announcement today (Thursday) that the company has become a living wage employer, UNISON General Secretary Dave Prentis said: “This is good news for all those staff,…Read more…
Festival and concert can help to combat efforts of National Front to organise intimidating rally
The article UNISON urges Swansea to celebrate multicultural community first appeared on the UNISON…Read more…
Commenting on the announcement from the Migration Advisory Committee –that nurses are to be allowed to remain on the occupational shortages list for another three years – UNISON head of nursing Gail…Read more…
The agreement must not include a private justice system for foreign investors…Read more…
A government study that exposes the disgraceful pregnancy and maternity discrimination experienced by three out of four working mothers has finally been released, following pressure from Unite….Read more…
A global union campaign to ensure fair labour laws in Cambodia has won the support of multinational brands and NGOs. IndustriALL and the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) are supporting…Read more…
Since the establishment of Police Scotland police staff have borne the brunt of a process of centralisation, budget cuts and politically driven targets. This process has been bad for policing, bad for communities and bad for staff. UNISON Scotland calls for policing in Scotland to be properly resourced with a balanced workforce responsive to locally determined priorities.
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IPPR report confirms UNISON’s view that falling real terms pay has had a considerable negative effect on the economy.
The IPPR report which is published today (23 March 2016) confirms that, pay in Scotland has fallen in real-terms by 12%, with private sector pay falling further than public sector pay. It also confirms that had pay risen in line with expectations, the Scottish economy would be £Read more…
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The hapless performance of Education Minister Nicky Morgan on BBC’s Newsnight when confronted with evidence of the distributional impact of her government’s tax and benefit cuts made for cringeworthy TV. Morgan seemed genuinely shocked at the disproportionate losses inflicted on lower…Read more…
Something very strange is happening in political discourse in Scotland – everyone’s talking about tax.
The Scotland Bill hasn’t even been passed, but it is having the desired effect of moving the…Read more…
The implication is that Big Blue is reducing its wage bill, not adjusting its business modelRead more…
Sports Direct billionaire owner Mike Ashely has claimed that the scrutiny of his company’s practices are damaging its sales at the expense of profit. Shares had already more than halved since…Read more…
Billionaire Sports Direct owner Mike Ashley faces contempt of parliament charges if he now fails to turn up to face MPs on June 7. MPs investigating mistreatment of his workers wish to…Read more…
Article after article by David Renard drives home the message that Swindon Borough Council ‘has no choice’. It has to outsource leisure facilities, close Children’s Centres, transfer services to parishes and abandon funding libraries save for the central one. How does this…Read more…
I have been filming in the Marshall Islands, which lie north of Australia, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Whenever I tell people where I have been, they ask,”Where is that?” If I…Read more…