From the workplace to the Rwanda policy, to Ukraine and Ghana, LGBT+ delegates debate a worrying situation
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Christina McAnea: ‘It’s great to be loud and proud’
General secretary tells UNISON LGBT+ conference that there’s still much to do on equalities and trans equality cannot be treated as some ‘poor relation’
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Nothing in statement to halt pay crisis across public services
Essential workers need to hear about pay as inflation outstrips funding
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Blog: Austerity only points to failure
Twelve years of the Tory ‘experiment’ of austerity have only seen sluggish growth and damaged public services – more of the same won’t suddenly produce better results
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Workforce plan and proper pay rise vital to secure NHS future, says UNISON
Government must stop talent and experience slipping away
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Government must focus on sorting NHS pay now, says UNISON
Staff can’t wait until next year for a wage boost
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Chancellor must not cut public services to fix economy, says UNISON
Widening gap between pay and prices is leaving services on verge of collapse
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UNISON delivers pay petition to Downing Street
Over 182,290 people signed the petition, demanding that the government ends the pay crisis by raising the minimum wage to £15 an hour
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UNISON attends trade unionist trial in Turkey
Gonul Erden faces charges of ‘terrorism’ for her trade union work, when she was co-president of the public health and services union SES
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Winter warning as Environment Agency staff vote for strike, says UNISON
Workers back action over pay
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Public sector wage slump matters to us all, says UNISON
Services are suffering because of sluggish wages
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Act on pay and help the NHS, staff and patients, say health unions
UNISON and other unions discuss workforce crisis with health secretary
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UNISON demands Rishi Sunak guarantee workers’ protections in EU law bill
In a letter to the prime minister, Christina McAnea writes: ‘Government should be creating stability and certainty – not a bonfire of workers’ rights and decades of legal wrangling.’
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Food banks under pressure from a ‘tsunami of need’
Food bank charity The Trussell Trust reports that one in five working people are now turning to food banks, as the cost of living crisis takes its toll
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Government must act urgently on NHS pay to bring record waiting times down, says UNISON
The NHS is in danger of reaching the point of no return.
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Strike vote is loud wake-up call to the government, says UNISON
A strike across the NHS this winter isn’t inevitable.
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Retained EU Law Bill: UNISON gives expert evidence in Parliament
Head of legal services, Shantha David, presented UNISON’s submission, telling the committee that the bill “will strip out some very basic employment rights.”
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Blog: It is within their power to give NHS workers the pay they deserve
“This government let frontline workers take responsibility when times were at their toughest, but now it refuses to take responsibility for the things that are in its control”
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UNISON’s first general secretary has died, aged 88
Alan Jinkinson was the former general secretary of NALGO and, when that merged with COHSE and NUPE in 1993, became the first leader of the new union
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UNISON’s reserved (low pay) seat threshold for 2023
The cut-off wage for election to reserved (low pay) seats in the union rises to £11.80 an hour.
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