‘Penalties are needed to make sure unscrupulous bosses abide by the law’
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UNISON welcomes West Sussex jobs move
Council brings safeguarding jobs back in house, citing fears that children are at risk because privatised contract delivers too few assessments
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Sign. Share. Scrap.
UNISON’s petition calling to scrap the pay cap is getting close to the 100,000-signature mark.
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UNISON suspends Aung San Suu Kyi’s membership
Honorary membership suspended as international pressure grows over Myanmar’s humanitarian crisis
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UNISON cautiously welcomes government’s school funding rethink
Union welcomes rethink from original proposal but warns that many schools will still struggle
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Open University should not be closed to Cubans
UNISON has issued a statement criticising the Open University for banning students from Cuba.
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UNISON calls on government to fund a proper NHS pay rise
‘NHS staff and their families need a pay award that stops the rot’
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FE pay claim: union writes to college heads asking for a decent pay rise
UNISON writes to FE college heads demanding a decent pay rise for staff
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The future of EU workers is ‘a fight that’s too important to lose’
MPs, Lords and the London Mayor back EU workers as UNISON members lobby Westminster
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UNISON’s joint branch and regional assessments enter the digital age
A key organising tool is updated to help the union ‘better face the challenges of the future’
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UNISON welcomes government U-turn on selling NHS staffing agency
Selling off NHS Professionals would have been ‘completely counterproductive and bad for patients and staff,’ union says
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Are we heading for a nurse and midwife crisis?
The media is full of reports that we are in, or heading towards, a nursing crisis. That is to say, a huge shortage of them. But are we really? We dive into the data to find out.
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Join the rally for EU citizens living in the UK
A rally to celebrate EU citizens living in the UK, and British citizens living in Europe, is to be held on Wednesday 13 September.
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A statue for the socialist suffragette
There is a memorial in Westminster to the brave women who fought for women’s suffrage, but one of the key campaigners doesn’t feature on it.
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Engineering a better society
Single mum Magda Lezama is a senior Leeds council engineer, a rambler, a wine enthusiast and a UNISON activist.
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Famous friends of the NHS
“The crisis in the NHS has been caused by political decisions.” Words not from a Labour politician or even a trade unionist, but from (probably) the most intelligent person of our era. Stephen…Read more…
New school year, new materials, new challenges
UNISON in schools has been working hard over the summer to produce new materials and update existing guidance and materials.
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How to… picture this
It’s great to have photographs to use in your campaigning work. But how can you make the best impression with your pictures?
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Glasgow janitors win pay rise as new school year starts
20-month dispute ends in victory for janitors in nursery, primary and ASL schools
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Interested in becoming an MP?
If you are active in UNISON and the Labour Party and interested in helping make your community better through Parliament, UNISON Labour Link is interested in hearing from you
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