UNISON welcomes increase to £8.45 (outside London) and 39.75 (London) an hour at start of Living Wage Week
The article New living wage rates announced first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Reverberating protest
It if it was night time most people wouldn’t think twice about hearing the socially conscious lyrics of rap group Public Enemy reverberating through the streets of Leeds’ city centre. Today,…Read more…
Poor odds for workers
Unite will be protesting outside bookmaker William Hill’s shops in London, Birkenhead, Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, Birmingham, Gloucester and Southampton on Friday (October 7), as part…Read more…
Workers in Japan let down by Abe’s new spending plans
Last month Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe set jaws dropping by announcing a 28.1 trillion yen (£208.1 billion) stimulus package. The package is designed to jump start Japan’s economy that has been struggling with slow growth and see off the threat of deflation. The important feature of the…Read more…
A fairer national minimum wage remains an ‘urgent need’
UNISON reasserts the ‘ultimate goal’ for UK minimum wage policy, in its submission to the Low Pay Commission
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‘Not all budding entrepreneurs’
Nearly 90 percent of jobs created in the past three months have been in self-employed roles, prompting warnings over the spread of low-paid insecure work throughout Britain. In the most recent…Read more…
UNISON vows to tackle poverty across society and the deeply divided society it creates
National delegate conference gets underway with discussion on how to tackle the poverty affecting millions across the UK
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Young workers worth ‘better than zero’
#STUC16 Young members were joined by other STUC delegates and TUC president Liz Snape in demonstrating for ‘Better than Zero’ workers’ conditions outside Café Nero in Dundee this morning.
Like some other businesses, Café Nero have made staff pay for the discriminatory so-called national living wage by a penny-pinching claw back of conditions like paid breaks and snacks. Under 25s don’tRead more…
University workers still not ‘all in it together’
UNISON condemns growing pay gap in higher education as new port shows tht senior managers’ pay grew by 3% last year
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University workers still not ‘all in it together’
UNISON condemns growing pay gap in higher education as new port shows tht senior managers’ pay grew by 3% last year
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UNISON hails historic pay deal for further education support staff in Scotland
Date: Friday 22 January 2016
UNISON hails historic pay deal for further education support staff in Scotland
UNISON has led negotiations to achieve the first ever national pay rise for over four thousand support staff in Scotland‘s Further Education Colleges. Support staff deliver a range of vital student services and are key to the running of the 25 new colleges in Scotland.
The deal wasRead more…
Ambulance crisis looms
The number of paramedics and other ambulance staff leaving the NHS has nearly doubled in four years with thousands more planning to quit imminently. Poor working conditions and low pay are…Read more…
UNISON wins £ multi-million compensation for 1400 women in Fife Council
Date: Wednesday 28 October 2015
UNISON has reached a multi million pound settlement with Fife Council for over 1400, mainly low paid women UNISON members, for their equal pay claims.
UNISON members will now be properly recompensed for historic discriminatory pay practices within Fife Council. It is a deal worth £millions and will include compensation for members back pay in some cases toRead more…
UNISON responds to government housing plans
Plans to increase the country’s housing stock are welcome, but do nothing to tackle the problems for those on low incomes
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Pay rise – no rise
More than a million workers earning the National Minimum Wage today (October 1) received a pay rise of 20p, with the adult rate going up to £6.70 an hour. Business secretary Sajid Javid said…Read more…
UNISON warns of staff exodus as two-thirds plan to leave the NHS
Low pay and staff shortages driving NHS staff to consider quitting the service
The article UNISON warns of staff exodus as two-thirds plan to leave the NHS first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
Special UNISON summit plans to tackle pay freeze
Over 100 top union activists convened at a pay summit at the UNISON Centre in London today (Thursday) to map out a cross-union strategy for dealing with the ongoing public sector pay freeze
The…Read more…
Part-time poverty
Earning below the living wage is the norm for part-time women workers in more than 130 parliamentary constituencies, according to new research carried out by the TUC to mark Part-time Equal Pay Day….Read more…
Social Rents in Newham are the highest in country
“Figures showing the borough has the least affordable social housing in the country have prompted calls for action from campaigners and MP Stephen Timms.
Newham came top of 338 locations with an average rent of £128.89 a week, the Office for National Statistics data covering England and Wales…Read more…
UNISON Scotland welcomes breakthrough in tackling low pay in the NHS
Friday 3 July 2015
UNISON Scotland’s Health Committee today welcomed a
breakthrough in the fight against poverty pay with the Scottish
Government agreeing to a review of the lowest pay band.
This development highlights the benefits of
Partnership working which has been the basis of industrial relations
in NHSScotland since 1999 and further enshrinesRead more…