Following a UNISON campaign, over 1,000 workers at Chesterfield Borough Council have been given extra job security
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Details announced for local government special conference
Committee believes it’s important for service group branches and activists to be able to discuss the issues faced and shape the work to come
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Pay delay for council workers a ‘disgrace’
Local government employers must speed up the pay process so that council workers and school staff – who have sacrificed so much during the pandemic – don’t have to wait months longer for a pay rise….Read more…
‘Make it a workers’ budget,’ UNISON urges chancellor
General secretary to call for an end to the pay freeze, real living wage for care workers and proper investment in local government
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Blog: UNISON delivers stunning blow on exit payments
Head of local government Jon Richards looks back at the latest Westminster U-turn – this time, after a legal challenge to its unfair plans
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Best of the Handforth Parish Council Planning & Environment Committee
Of course in the past 10 months since lockdown no Newham Council or Labour Party meeting has been anything like this 🙂
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-55946252
Video of the year – Who are the real heroes?
Every day on UniteLIVE during the festive period, we highlight our videos of the year. Today, we feature a film from May, when Unite first began its campaign to ensure a decent pay rise for…Read more…
GLL recognition deal ‘huge step forward’
Unite the union and Greenwich Leisure Limited (GLL) have signed a union recognition agreement. The agreement specifically relates to the leisure contract in the London Borough of Lewisham and follows…Read more…
UNISON will continue to oppose ‘outrageous’ exit payment plans
The union repeats its criticism of government plans to bring in a cap on public sector exit payments
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For youth workers, COVID-19 is just another challenge
“We’re facing a government that basically has no interest in young people”
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‘Come clean’ call to council
The decision by Lewisham council to extend the contract of Greenwich Leisure Limited (GLL) to run the authorities leisure services has been condemned by Unite today, August 26.
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Croydon council job cuts ‘fire sale’
Croydon council is being urged to pause its consultation on mass redundancies in order to preserve jobs and protect frontline services during the health and economic crisis. The call to pause the…Read more…
Unpaid ‘career break’?
Plans by social enterprise leisure giant Greenwich Leisure Limited (GLL) for its permanent staff to take an unpaid career break until at least April 2021 has led to renewed calls that its council…Read more…
UNISON joins attack on housing minister over fossil fuel divestment
Open letter condemns suggestion that pension funds engage in ‘constructive engagement’ with fossil fuel companies
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Sunderland members give out 3,000 gift packs to local government workers
‘We’re looking after the people who are looking after the people’
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UNISON publishes library reopening guidance
Advice for a ‘gradual and phased’ return puts safety first
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Help them get the pay they deserve
Councillors from across England, Wales and Northern Ireland are being urged to sign up and support a fair and proper pay rise for council workers in an online letter launched by Unite, as part of its…Read more…
‘Warm words rub salt in wounds’
About 100,000 council workers, members of Unite, will take part in a consultative ballot to see if they wish to reject or accept a pay and conditions offer for 2020/1 which amounts to just £1.83 a…Read more…
NJC committee to put pay offer to members
Consultation will allow branches and members to discuss the employers’ final offer – the best that can be achieved by negotiation
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Fighting on two fronts – and paying the price
Migrant key workers are on the pandemic frontline but their fight to remain in the country is even harder. UNISON is asking the government to grant them indefinite leave to remain. We hear what that…Read more…