Let’s look behind the headlines, avoid the spin, and separate the fact from the fiction of this week’s budget
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What does the budget really mean for you?
Let’s look behind the headlines, avoid the spin, and separate the fact from the fiction of this week’s budget
The article What does the budget really mean for you? first appeared on the UNISON National site.
Chancellor is living in a fantasy world
The NHS, councils, care and other public services need help and tax cuts won’t deliver it
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Chancellor is living in a fantasy world
The NHS, councils, care and other public services need help and tax cuts won’t deliver it
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UNISON opinion: The budget will deliver more cuts and more pain
‘After fourteen years of economic mismanagement, I know what to expect from tomorrow’s budget’
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UNISON opinion: The budget will deliver more cuts and more pain
‘After fourteen years of economic mismanagement, I know what to expect from tomorrow’s budget’
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Blog: Money for everything, everywhere, just not your pay rise
Today’s budget found the cash to offer tax cuts to big businesses and the highest earners – but nothing for public service pay, again
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Growth won’t happen without strong public services
Chancellor can find the money when it suits him
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Blog: Which version of the UK will Jeremy Hunt choose to back?
We’ll be watching closely, and we’ll be ready to take action if the chancellor fails to fix the crisis in pay packets and public services
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How the budget could fix public services
But new UNISON research shows that public service workers are overwhelmingly pessimistic about chancellor Jeremy Hunt doing the right thing next week
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Chancellor ‘not on the side of workers’
Unite general secretary Sharon Graham spoke out after last week’s Autumn Statement, in which chancellor Jeremy Hunt sent out a clear message that he was not on the side of working people or their communities. In the video below, Sharon explains: Sharon also commented: The Chancellor has made choices which put him on the side […]
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Government is making rich richer while leaving struggling families in despair
Teetering public services deserve much better
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Videos of the year – how is this a pay rise?
Unite vice chair of the union’s national ambulance committee is dedicated NHS paramedic, Debbie Wilkinson. In September a 3 per cent pay rise was enforced on NHS workers – which although might sound…Read more…
Tales from the far side
Sharon Graham, called it right when she said, pre-Budget, that she feared workers would pay the price of the pandemic. It certainly looks that way. And realistically the best chance workers will have…Read more…
Workers to pay price for pandemic
Sadly Unite’s fears that the government would make workers pay for the pandemic were borne out in Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s Budget statement today (Wednesday October 27).
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UNISON Greater London activists met with Christina McAnea ahead of tomorrow’s government spending review.
UNISON Greater London activists met with Christina McAnea ahead of tomorrow’s government spending review.Our message to Rishi Sunak is clear: The government must find the money for the pay rise our members deserve.
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A Budget of ‘spin, gimmicks and dangerous wheezes’
Reacting last night to the Budget statement delivered by chancellor Rishi Sunak (Wednesday, March 3) Unite general secretary Len McCluskey warned that the government’s flagship freeports policy could…Read more…
Sunak Budget ‘falls short’
Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s Budget today (March 3) fell short of what was needed to rebuild the economy and protect people’s jobs, health and incomes, Unite warned.
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Chancellor ‘ducking decision’ to reform social care, says UNISON
Gavin Edwards says Rishi Sunak must act now to fund major overhaul of the sector
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Chancellor has ignored public service workers, says UNISON
Rescuing economy and public services should do hand in hand
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