Tax avoidance on this scale is simply the poorest paying the price for the grubby venality of the rich. Governments around the world now need to develop concrete and workable solutions to root out…Read more…
UNISON mounts campaign to save jobs at academies in Essex
140 jobs under threat at six schools in Harlow will put ‘the quality of children’s education at risk’ warns union
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More than 10,000 people call on MPs to debate LGPS plans
Sign the UNISON petition urging Parliament to debate plans giving ministers a right to tell pension funds where to invest money
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Service group executive elections
Ballots for contested seats on the union’s seven service group executives open on Monday 11 April when ballot papers start being despatched to members
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‘An inconsequential little protest’
Graeme Ellis didn’t expect that a very personal gesture of protest would help pave the way for the government’s budget u-turn on cuts to disabled people
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Keeping the home fires burning
All in a day’s work for the National Grid shift control engineer
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Public library service ‘hollowed out’ by job losses and cuts
UNISON backs BBC report that reveals loss of 8,000 jobs and 343 libraries in six years
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New era for school support staff in Wales
All learning support staff in Wales must now be registered with the Education Workforce Council
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This isn’t a “living wage” – it’s a rebranded minimum wage
From today, many low-paid workers will begin to receive the so-called “national living wage” – of course, the new wage level is anything but
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UNISON welcomes minimum wage boost
UNISON Cymru/Wales welcomes increased minimum wage but warns it could undermine the positive work of the Welsh government in this area
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What schools need is stability, not constant faddish upheaval
What do parents want from their children’s schools? Quality teaching and a nurturing environment would probably be on most people’s lists. Hiring lawyers and accountants to manage a transfer of land…Read more…
Teaching assistant wins prestigious award
Award celebrates activist who has made greatest contribution to Gateshead branch and its members
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Swansea council staff protest over car parking
Anger at strategy that is making ‘difficult problem worse’
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When a government’s response to debt is austerity, the impact is devastating
Today I’m speaking at a conference examining the impact of sovereign debt crises on public sector workers. As UNISON members know, when a government’s response to debt is austerity, the impact is…Read more…
Opposition to forced academisation increases
Government plans to forces 17,000 schools in England to become academies opposed by unions, educators and politicians, including leading Conservative voices
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Across our country those who the vulnerable rely upon are being let down
Vitally important care workers are being paid far less than the absolute basic minimum that they should receive. Nearly twenty years on from the establishment of a minimum wage in this country, that…Read more…
Cardiff councillors to debate opposition to secret trade deal
‘TTIP and trade deals like it are a threat to public services and to public sector staff’
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Care workers continue to be denied the minimum wage
MPs praise UNISON’s campaign to support care workers who are ‘illegally’ under-paid
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UNISON teams with young people to fight cuts to youth services
Union is seeking to protect youth services ‘for the long term’
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Higher education unions reject initial pay offer for 2016-17
Employers’ initial offer to higher education unions does not include the living wage
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