Public services support staff – including teaching assistants, hospital porters and police community support offers (PCSOs) – are doing more than 40 million hours of unpaid overtime a year*, says a…Read more…
‘Dehumanising’ benefits system must be reformed, says UNISON
Women, working families, disabled people and ethnic minorities are being penalised by unjust policies which undermine their financial independence and leave some destitute, says UNISON. The union…Read more…
Probation rescue plans will be disastrous
This is the last chance saloon for the probation service and rescue plans proposed by the MoJ just don’t cut the mustard.
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Mismanagement by academy trust leaves vulnerable students and staff facing huge cuts
Large cuts are looming at the TBAP multi-academy trust, which runs schools in London, Essex, Cambridgeshire and the North West, following accusations of financial mismanagement.
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Midlands college facing financial collapse refused to heed warnings
It’s a disgrace that financial troubles have escalated to this level.
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NHS Earnings Max – get your resources on the UNISON Organising Space
Make sure your NHS employer is getting it right when it comes to our members’ take-home pay
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NHS pause of ‘subcos’ long overdue
This whole policy has been a damaging distraction. Valuable resources that could have gone on improving care have been wasted.
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Bolton members vote to strike over pay equality
Industrial action vote follows offer of 2% – well below Agenda for Change agreement – for workers transferred to NHS subco
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‘A testament to the strength of feeling’
Council workers from across UK pack Westminster to tell MPs ‘what’s really happening’ and urge them to Save Our Local Services
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UNISON launches national staff and patient safety survey
Nurses, midwives, healthcare assistants, NHS students, ambulance workers, therapists, and administrative, facilities and technical staff across the UK are being asked to record how their shift goes…Read more…
Blog: Radicalism and ambition
I was pleased to hear John McDonnell note our fight against PFI last week in his speech to the TUC, but our party can and must go further still, by bringing all public services back in house, ending…Read more…
Union hails trust’s u-turn on private company plans a ‘fantastic victory’
Tees, Esk and Wear Valley trust becomes latest to abandon plans to transfer staff to private wholly owned subsidiary company
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Unions and employers link up to fight for colleges
Campaign will see further education unions, college employers and students lobby Parliament in October to call for proper funding
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Registration opens for BOAT/UNISON annual seminar
Seminar will discuss a wide range of issues, including pay, young members and pensions
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Get ready for UNISON’s annual NHS staff survey
The survey aims to take a snapshot of life working in the NHS on a single day – and this year, it’s open to all health service staff
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UNISON is sending out HE ballot papers and calling for yes to strike action
UNISON is calling for members to back strike action, as some employers attempt to impose the below-inflation offer
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The English NHS pay deal – in six charts
A lot has been written about the NHS pay deal in England and what it will mean to individuals’ pay packets. But how does it affect staff at different stages of their career?
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UNISON demands that Labour in government ends privatisation from day one
There must be a commitment to abolish the divisive, destructive and damaging policy of privatisation.
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UNISON calls for new government inquiry into academy chain accused of misusing public funds
Ministers seem to have allowed a situation to develop where commercial interests overrode taxpayers’ interests and the public good. Pupils, parents and the public purse have all paid the price.
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Home ownership now little more than a pipe dream for public sector workers
Owning a home has become virtually impossible for many public sector workers across Britain, according to research published today (Sunday)
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