Summer is technically over – so it’s time for UNISON branches to start ordering your 2017 diaries
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Social Work Watch set to snap the state of the profession
Work in social care? Please fill in our survey describing their work day on 21 September
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Unhealthy development: How DfID promotes health privatisation
UNISON is calling on DFID to reassess its health strategy and end its support for private healthcare schemes. Instead it should focus on the eradication of poverty, through support for quality public…Read more…
Government told to rethink promotion of private healthcare
UNISON report shows up role of Department for International Development in promoting healthcare privatisation to some of the world’s poorest countries
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Higher Education – time for the sector to fight back
We may have a different Prime Minister but staff working in Higher Education face the same declining pay, the same tough working conditions and the same attacks on the sector that they faced under…Read more…
Scotland’s FE workers to strike on Tuesday 6 September
First national strike will take place in support of fair pay and parity with lecturer colleagues
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Higher education members vote on strike action over pay
Higher education members will be voting over strike action as a result of a 1.1% pay offer for the majority of staff.
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UNISON prepares to make its mark at TUC Congress
Key issues will feature in debate and congress will recognise the work of activists Darren Barber and Margaret McKee
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Don’t scrap the Human Rights Act
In the months and years to come, we will fight this calculated attack on our hard won rights and freedoms alongside Amnesty International, Liberty, the British Institution of Human Rights and others….Read more…
School stars are rising
The build-up to this year’s Stars in Our Schools celebration is under way
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NEC by-election result for Wales female seat
Angela Roberts has been elected to the UNISON national executive council and takes office immediately
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Service group executive by-elections
By-elections are to be held for vacant seats on all seven of the union’s service group executives, with nominations opening on 6 September
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UNISON calls for council oversight of academy school finances
Friday 26 August 2016 For immediate release Responding to the Local Government Association call for councils to have oversight of academy school finances, UNISON national secretary for education Jon…Read more…
Colombia still needs human rights monitoring despite peace deal
UNISON calls for renewed pressure on right-wing paramilitary groups, as the peace process moves towards a referendum
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There must be a level playing field for career and pay progression
Four decades after the Equal Pay Act and with a vast array of equal rights legislation on the books, this shouldn’t still be happening. Yet there’s ample evidence that women with children are denied…Read more…
Women penalised financially for having children
Women with children face a wider gender pay gap, says a new report from the Institute of Fiscal Studies
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Wages standstill sees over a million low-income families struggle with extreme debt, says TUC
More than a million families with a household income below £30,000 are in extreme debt, and ongoing wage stagnation is making the problem worse, according to a new report published today (Tuesday) by…Read more…
No-one should be forced to choose between paying the rent and feeding their kids
Over three million households (one in eight UK households) are paying more than 25% of their household income on repaying unsecured debts.
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More than a million families struggle with extreme debt
Stagnant wages make problem worse for families struggling with low pay
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Under pressure, underfunded and undervalued
Laying bare the experiences of more than 2,200 UNISON members working in councils and schools, delivering the local services we all rely on
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