Last ditch talks to avoid an escalating pay dispute at the UK’s largest crane hire company, Ainscough, are set to take place this Thursday (November 5) after members of Unite rejected a ‘pitiful’ two…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…
Community led public services can transform inequalities, says report
Thursday 22 October 2015
UNISON Labour Link Media Release – Launch of Commission on Health Inequalities report will take place at 22 October, 9.00am UNISON Scotland, 14 West Campbell St., Glasgow
The report of the Commission on Health Inequalities for the Scottish Labour Party calls for national leadership and community hubs to tackle health inequalities.The Commission for Health InequalitiesRead more…
Members reject 0% in FE
Further education members in England reject offer from Association of Colleges in summer consultation
The article Members reject 0% in FE first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
Sign The Petition Opposing the 1% Pay Cap For Public Sector Workers For The Next 5 Years
Remove the 1% public sector pay cap. Teachers, nurses, civil servants, local Government Workers etc deserve a pay rise too. People working in the public sector have already suffered 5 years of no pay rises and increased pension costs. Another … Continue reading →Read more…
Scottish council workers vote for two-year pay deal
Ballot sees 88% of local government members in Scotland vote for 1.5% rise for 2015 and1% in 2016
The article Scottish council workers vote for two-year pay deal first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
Local govt members vote to accept two year pay offer
Over 85% of Scottish local government members voting in their pay ballot have accepted a two year offer with a new Living Wage deal. Staff will now get a 1.5% rise from 1 April 2015 and 1% from April 2016.
Importantly, the Scottish Local Government Living Wage of £7.85 per hour will be put in place before the 1.5% rise, making it £7.97 an hour.
And in April 2016, the Living Wage will beRead more…
Beer’s off?
A global pay freeze by brewers Carlsberg has left a sour taste in the mouth for workers at its Northampton plant. As a result, nearly 200 engineers, brewers, processers and packers at the Bridge…Read more…
‘There is an alternative to austerity’
UNISON general secretary uses Labour conference to call for an end to the cuts, privatisation and pay freezes that are ‘destroying lives’
The article ‘There is an alternative to…Read more…
Teachers’ Pay for a Teacher’s Day
One of the first campaigns I organised when I became a Division Secretary was to fight East Sussex County Council’s unilateral decision to close their “Supply Pool” arrangements. Although we gained…Read more…
Pay – doing nothing is not an option
On Thursday a national pay summit was held at UNISON head office with representatives in attendance from all regions and service groups. Co-chaired by President Wendy Nichols and NEC Policy Chair…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…
Osborne Voodoonomics
The Chinese stock market bubble has burst and China has had its own “Black Monday” (on 23 August). Its economic growth is slowing down and the after effects of the turmoil in its stock market and…Read more…
Local government pay offer made – ballot from 2 September
UNISON and the other SJC trade unions have been in negotiations with the Scottish Employers for a number of months on the issue of pay. We submitted a claim in November last year, the headline of which was an increase of £1 per hour. Unfortunately we were unable to convince the employers to make a flat rate increase in this pay round. It was also the case that the employers were prepared to offerRead more…
Not even one per cent?
Just a month after Cameron’s post-election U-turn on a 10 per cent pay rise for MPs, Tories say public sector workers may not get their 1 per cent pay rise after all. Public sector workers…Read more…
Indesit national strike
This morning drivers and warehouse workers at Indesit depots around the country started their second strike over pay – this time escalating to 48 hours.
The strikers are based at Andover; Barnsley; Chepstow; Gateshead; Grangemouth; Hayes (west London…Read more…
Probation staff set for second strike in England and Wales
Employers walk away from ACAS talks – prompting new strike action on 14 September
The article Probation staff set for second strike in England and Wales first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
Sixth-form colleges need funding protection, says UNISON
“Sixth form colleges need the same funding protection as schools,” says UNISON in the wake of a report from the Sixth Form College Association highlighting the scale of funding cuts
The article…Read more…
NHS Pay Review Body echoes health union views on 7 day NHS
A week after the Chancellor effectively sidelined the NHS Pay Review Body by imposing a 4 year “deal” on pay, the PRB has published its long awaited report on seven day services for NHS staff. The report sets out the conclusions and observations of PRB members who gathered written and…Read more…
Pay protest – strong as ever
Hundreds of highly skilled construction workers and their supporters gathered at all four entrance gates to the Wilton complex on Teesside to protest at Sita/Sembcorp in their #PayTheRate campaign on…Read more…