This week the Trade Union Bill went back to the House of Commons. We didn’t manage to defeat the entire Bill but we did manage to remove several elements of it that would have irrevocably damaged the…Read more…
As we condemn the Trade Union Bill we shouldn’t overlook what our campaigning has achieved
This is a bad bill but without the labour movement pushing back with passion and vigour, it could have been much worse.
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Government withdraws plan to stop check-off for subs payment
‘Now at least UNISON can concentrate on campaigning to protect public sector employees at work and the services they deliver’
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A significant victory for our union and our movement
This is a change that wasn’t in the interest of public service workers, employers or those who rely upon the services they provide. I’m glad that the government have seen sense at this late…Read more…
Lords inflict serious blow to the Trade Union Bill
Peers vote for three key changes to the government’s damaging trade union reforms
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‘Scrub the TU Bill’
East Midlands women speak out against unnecessary change in law ‘that can only harm relations between employers and workers’
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Ending check-off would make absolutely no sense
Ending union members’ right to have their subs deducted from wages would be disruptive, centralist and make absolutely no sense
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Welsh councils and unions unite to oppose Trade Union Bill
Cymru/Wales local government employers defend facility time, check-off and union rights for council workers
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Ending union check-off arrangements would be disruptive, centralist, and make absolutely no sense
Just as it seemed the Trade Union Bill couldn’t get any worse, the government confirmed last week that it is pushing ahead with its last minute amendment to the bill – bringing in new plans to scrap check-off arrangements across the public sector. Check-off is the system through which…Read more…
An attack we’ve seen off before
Trying to stop nurses, care workers, teaching assistants, hospital cleaners and town hall staff from paying their union subs directly from their wages is an attack we’ve defeated before and one which…Read more…
The ghost of check-off past – Danny Alexander returns to haunt Matt Hancock
Cabinet Office Minster Matt Hancock MP took everyone by surprise with today’s last-minute addition to the Trade Union Bill. In revealing plans to abolish check-off (the process by which employers deduct union subscriptions directly from wages) arrangements for union members in the public…Read more…
Come clean, ministers
Ministers should come clean about how stopping public sector union members paying their membership dues though the long-standing payroll ‘check off’ system will achieve a saving of £6.5m to the…Read more…
Stop end to check off threat
Unite assistant general secretary Gail Cartmail spoke today (August 6) on BBC Radio 4’s World at Oneprogramme in defence of check-off, a system by which union members have their dues…Read more…
A most spiteful act
Check-off, the system by which union members’ subscriptions are automatically deducted from their salaries, has come under threat as the government unveiled today (August 6) measures that would end…Read more…
Government’s union membership changes are aimed at undermining public service workers’ rights
The Trade Union Bill keeps getting bigger as the Government find more ways they can rebalance power away from the workforce. The rapidly increasing package of measures contained in the Bill seeks to reduce the capacity of unions to represent people at …Read more…
Attacks on unions are attacks on working people too, says UNISON
UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis commens on government proposals to prevent people who work in the public sector from paying their union membership fees directly from their wages.
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