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Delegates back calls for improved pay and sick pay

Jun 16, 2022By Dave Prentis blog

Speakers highlight how national minimum wage and national living wage rates are not keeping up with inflation, and say that poor sick pay means sick workers going to work

The article Delegates back…Read more…

Jun 16, 2022Dave Prentis blog

Minimum wage rise – low-income families need boost now

Oct 25, 2021By Dave Prentis blog

Extra cash is little comfort after universal credit cut and national insurance rise

The article Minimum wage rise – low-income families need boost now first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…

Oct 25, 2021Dave Prentis blog

Exploitation of care workers must end, says UNISON

Aug 27, 2021By Dave Prentis blog

Labour’s move to close legal loophole is welcome

The article Exploitation of care workers must end, says UNISON first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…

Aug 27, 2021Dave Prentis blog

UNISON urges councils to ensure care staff are properly paid

Aug 13, 2021By Dave Prentis blog

Call comes after the government ‘names and shames’ companies in England and Wales for flouting minimum wage legislation

The article UNISON urges councils to ensure care staff are properly paid first…Read more…

Aug 13, 2021Dave Prentis blog

‘We won’t rest until we win’

Sep 14, 2020By UNITElive

TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady gave a powerful opening speech this morning (September 14) of the first day of the first online-only Congress in the union confederation’s 152 year history….Read more…

Sep 14, 2020UNITElive

New minimum wages rates take effect from today

Apr 1, 2020By Dave Prentis blog

New minimum pay rates come into force for many key workers, including care staff

The article New minimum wages rates take effect from today first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…

Apr 1, 2020Dave Prentis blog

One wage for all ages

Apr 5, 2019By John's Labour blog

Great photo of our former UNISON Housing Associations branch manager & organiser, Josephine Grahl, with Jez and Dave Prentis, celebrating 20 years of National Minimum wage (and campaigning for all workers to be paid the same) 
Josephine is now…Read more…

Apr 5, 2019John's Labour blog

One wage for all ages

Apr 2, 2019By Dave Prentis blog

UNISON launches #OneWageAnyWage campaign is it celebrates 20 years of the national minimum wage

The article One wage for all ages first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…

Apr 2, 2019Dave Prentis blog

Blog: Fighting for a real Living Wage for all, 20 years on from the National Minimum Wage

Apr 1, 2019By Dave Prentis blog

Twenty years on from the bold, landmark decision to establish a National Minimum Wage, it is time for a new landmark – a real Living Wage for all, regardless of age, that everyone in work can afford…Read more…

Apr 1, 2019Dave Prentis blog

UNISON urges vigilance as new minimum wages rates are due

Mar 15, 2019By Dave Prentis blog

Union says stewards need to make sure employers are paying the proper amounts when the new wage rates come into force on 1 April

The article UNISON urges vigilance as new minimum wages rates are due…Read more…

Mar 15, 2019Dave Prentis blog

UNISON puts pressure on Treasury to increase universal credit work allowance

Oct 25, 2018By Dave Prentis blog

The government must reverse its cuts to universal credit so that workers are allowed to keep more of the money they earn every month, says UNISON today (Thursday). Millions of workers on the minimum…Read more…

Oct 25, 2018Dave Prentis blog

Bolton members vote to strike over pay equality

Sep 18, 2018By Dave Prentis blog

Industrial action vote follows offer of 2% – well below Agenda for Change agreement – for workers transferred to NHS subco

The article Bolton members vote to strike over pay equality first appeared…Read more…

Sep 18, 2018Dave Prentis blog

Bolton hospital workers to ballot on action for pay parity

Aug 22, 2018By Dave Prentis blog

Wholly-owned subsidiary pays staff less than directly-employed workers after failing to implement NHS pay rise

The article Bolton hospital workers to ballot on action for pay parity first appeared…Read more…

Aug 22, 2018Dave Prentis blog

UNISON seeks leave to appeal on sleep-in case

Aug 8, 2018By Dave Prentis blog

‘We believe the Court of Appeal got this decision completely wrong and will do everything we can to reverse it’

The article UNISON seeks leave to appeal on sleep-in case first appeared on the UNISON…Read more…

Aug 8, 2018Dave Prentis blog

“Sleep-in shifts judgment is a huge mistake”

Jul 13, 2018By John's Labour blog

This judgement is bad news for hundreds of thousands of low paid care workers (including my
niece).

Being paid not even the national minimum wage for work is simply a disgrace. I hope UNISON lawyers can find a way forward on this.

If not we need to …Read more…

Jul 13, 2018John's Labour blog

Why national minimum wage needs to rise to £10

Jul 11, 2018By UNITElive

A report published this week shows how a rise in the minimum wage would see 9 million workers better off. And that can only be good for the country, Unite director of research John Earls writes….Read more…

Jul 11, 2018UNITElive

The difference a Living Wage makes

Apr 20, 2018By UNITElive

One in five people working in the UK do not earn enough to live on – that’s about 5m people earning below the Living Wage, a rate calculated by an independent foundation to reflect the real cost of…Read more…

Apr 20, 2018UNITElive

Are you receiving universal credit? Have your say

Feb 8, 2018By Dave Prentis blog

UNISON is looking for people who are on the national minimum wage – currently £7.50 an hour – and who also get universal credit

The article Are you receiving universal credit? Have your say first…Read more…

Feb 8, 2018Dave Prentis blog

Low paid care workers told to wait for back pay

Jul 26, 2017By Dave Prentis blog

Care workers owed up to six years’ back pay after being paid below the minimum wage will have to wait until October for the money they are owed after a government announcement today

The article Low…Read more…

Jul 26, 2017Dave Prentis blog

Care companies must pay back pay to staff who do sleep-ins, says UNISON

Jul 19, 2017By Dave Prentis blog

Charities and care companies that have paid staff one-off payments for overnight sleep-ins should not be exempt from paying the national minimum wage, says UNISON. Claims for back pay could cost the…Read more…

Jul 19, 2017Dave Prentis blog
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