Ambulance trusts move to cut sick pay

Ambulance trusts are moving to cut sick pay, despite of warnings from UNISON is any money is docked from pay packets

UNISON NI fights for school support workers

A consultation over changes to how schools in Northern Ireland are funded shows worrying signs of squeezing school support workers

UNISON campaign helps protect Sudanese political prisoner

UNSION member Ekhlas Ahmed celebrates after husband freed from Khartoum jail

Child protection let down by Government cuts

UNISON, the UK’s largest union, today laid blame for failures in child protection services, firmly on the shoulders of the Government’s devastating council cuts.

Inflation still hitting families hard

The headline figure masks the cost of everyday essentials. For many workers the gap between pay and prices is widening, with food inflation standing high at around 4.8%.

UNISON recruitment continues apace

UNISON’s recruitment continues apace around the country

UNISON submission to Low Pay Commission

Ending the misery of poverty pay would create a win-win scenario, stimulating the economy through increased spending, saving taxpayers’ money by cutting benefits and helping to close the gender pay gap.

A living wage would be a win-win

We’re submitting our evidence to the Low Pay Commission, calling for a higher national minimum wage

Tragic death raises issue of vehicle safety

As a company is ordered to pay out over the death of a young worker, UNISON responds to the Health and Safety Executive’s workplace transport guide

UNISON writes to Guatemalan president over murders

UNISON has written to the president of Guatemala urging him to act on the rising toll of murdered trade unionists

Employers urged to act on cancer

NHS campaign highlights the importance of occupational screening for cancer

Time to nail the public sector pay premium myth

Research from Policy Exchange claiming that public sector workers earn more than their equivalent in the private sector is fundamentally flawed, says UNISON

UNISON chief vows to continue fight against police cuts and privatisation

Dave Prentis pledges to put the weight of the union behind the fight against the cuts and privatisation of the police and probation services

British Gas signs UNISON call centre charter

British Gas has become the first major company to sign up to UNISON’s call centre charter to ensure basic standards for staff

Monitor report says NHS pay freeze risks care

UNISON says that a new report from sector regulator Monitor shows the risk to care of a continuing pay freeze