In the run-up to elections in Colombia at the end of May, UNISON is highlighting four women social leaders who have been subject to violence due to their activism
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Government must show commitment to social worker reform, says UNISON
Career development and pay proposals must be properly funded
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Government should focus on cost-of-living crisis rather than attacking unions
Right to strike is fundamental for workers
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Government plan to provide early years education on the cheap will hit children and staff
The sector urgently needs long-term investment
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Ministers must do much more to support the hard-up as inflation hits another high, says UNISON
Boost to public sector wages and benefits are a must
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Rising NHS staff exits require urgent government action, says UNISON
Without an urgent retention package, including an above-inflation pay rise, the NHS will be unable to stem the tide of leavers and waiting lists will continue to grow.
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UNISON fights to protect rights of workers with long COVID
UNISON says that the Equality Act 2020 is being misrepresented by the Equality and Human Rights Commission
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UNISON condemns killing of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh
International committee welcomes IFJ’s complaint to the International Criminal Court regarding Israel’s targeting of journalists working in Palestine
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Sandwell leisure workers celebrate pay victory after latest strike
Employer announces it will return the workers to national pay, terms and conditions after last week’s industrial action
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Threat of strike action at health sites across Lancashire, says UNISON
Staff including porters and cleaners employed by healthcare facilities firm OCS paid less than NHS colleagues
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Blog: The UK government must invest properly in our nurses
This International Nurses Day, it’s not enough to celebrate nurses, we need to demand proper investment in the profession
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Government has run out of ideas to tackle cost of living crisis, says UNISON
Ministers haven’t grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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Sandwell leisure workers strike to open new pay battle
Together with the GMB and Unite, the move comes after the council vowed to end the contract with Sandwell Leisure Trust in the wake of its decision to fire and rehire all staff
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TUC demo: Seven bonus reasons to get off the sofa and go
A sideways glance at some of the less obvious reasons why you and your friends should fight for a solution to the cost of living crisis at the big national TUC demos on 18 June
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Blog: Get set for a Queen’s Speech that delivers nothing
The Tories in Westminster won’t focus on what needs to be done to tackle the cost of living crisis, but on ‘the wrong things and the wrong time’
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‘Working people cannot afford 12 more years of decline’
After Labour’s success at the polls last week, deputy leader Angela Rayner talks exclusively to UNISON about her upbringing and what is really needed to fix the cost of living crisis
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Restore free testing in schools or risk SATs disruption, warns UNISON
National testing in English primary schools this year could be severely affected because of Covid absences, according to concerns raised in a UNISON survey released today (Friday). More than seven in…Read more…
UNISON police staff members vote to accept pay offer
First digital ballot in the sector helps to produce higher turnout
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Blog: Why attacks on legal abortion are a trade union matter
A leaked opinion from the US supreme court has suggested that abortion there could be severely limited. Anne McVicker, chair of national women’s committee, and Liz Wheatley, chair of the…Read more…
Government must bring back Covid funding to safeguard ‘lives and livelihoods’, say UNISON and the Care Provider Alliance
Christina McAnea and Professor Martin Green warn more staff could quit unless infection control fund is reinstated
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