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Two huge legal wins are a cause for celebration in the lead up to Easter... |
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Last week we went to Westminster to celebrate the 10th birthday of the national minimum wage.
It's a major achievement. Over the past 10 years the minimum wage has raised the living standards of the lowest paid, and helped to close the pay gap between men and women.
But it could be better.
UNISON is calling on the government to take bold action to defend and improve the national minimum wage.
Winning for equal pay
(03/04/09) UNISON wins two important battles in fight for equal pay
Sonnet calls on G20 to 'give peace a chance'
(02/04/09) Demonstration urges action across the globe
Government stops aid to Colombian army
(01/04/09) UNISON welcomes announcement on most dangerous country for trade unionists
Higher education employers fail to make offer
(31/03/09) Unions stunned as employers say: 'choose between jobs or pay increase'
A minute to remember the dead
How will your branch mark International Workers' Memorial Day on 28 April?
Facing the cash crisis in the voluntary sector
Before we'd even heard of credit being crunched, community and voluntary workers were being affected by a funding crisis
Local government pay offer
Local government employers offer 0.5% for 2009-10 (England, Wales and Northern Ireland)
Scotland launches EU manifesto
Union campaign urges co-ordinated increases in public sector investment to tackle recession, and for EU to take a lead in tackling racism across Europe
Agency workers' survey
TUC survey on agency workers to feed into government consultation on implementing EU directive
Stand up for social work
Our social care members are under fire. Act now to support them
Green Growth: a low-carbon strategy for economic recovery?
A free TUC conference later this month will explore how going greener could help dig the UK out of recession
Supporting members in academy schools
New recruitment materials highlight the many benefits of joining UNISON
NEC election
Voting opens in just over a week - make sure your members have their say
Coming events
Coming events: including UNISON schools seminar 7 May
Training
Activists' training in your region and nationally
Equal pay
Positively Public
Migrant workers
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