If we care about employee wellbeing, zero-hour contracts must go

Unison, described zero-hour employers as taking a “seriously exploitative Victorian approach” to work.

Food prices rising four times faster than wages while youth and long-term unemployment soaring

Dave Prentis, general secretary of the Unison union, said the figures “mask the damaging growth of under-employment plaguing the country and stifling economic recovery. “A toxic combination of part-time, minimum wage, zero-hours working is spreading across the country, as decently paid, full-time opportunities become increasingly rare.”

Lifting ban on NHS workers with HIV long overdue

UNISON has campaigned long and hard on this issue calling for the regulations to be based on evidence rather than misinformed, often homophobic, prejudice

No salvation shown to charity workers who face pay cuts and poverty line

UNISON condemns The Salvation Army’s plans to cut the pay and service conditions of workers caring for people in hostels for the homeless

Underemployment is ‘plaguing the country and stifling economic growth’

Warning from UNISON West Midlands regional secretary Ravi Subramanian

UNISON launches chief officers survey

Major online survey for chief officers and senior managers working in local government now live

Unemployment figures – UNISON reaction

Toxic combination of a part-time, minimum wage, zero-hours working is spreading across the country, as decently paid, full-time opportunities become increasingly rare

Paediatric situation critical declares UNISON

In patient paediatric services for Bedford are unlikely to be returning to the Bedford Hospital NHS Trust

UNISON calls on health minister to come clean

Health trusts across Northern Ireland are continuing at full speed with their plans to close NHS residential care homes

Four Seasons pay offer

UNISON recommends acceptance of offer

‘Can’t wait!!’ Real life David Brent signs off redundancies email with details of his holiday plans

Senior union boss Kevan Nelson, Unison’s north west secretary, said: “It is a bit David Brent. He probably meant it well but has underestimated the impact of these changes on his staff. “I recognise there is a style of management where you don’t want to appear overly-autocratic, but talking about your plans when people’s livelihoods […]

Terry Dunn’s David Brent moment that riled staff facing sack

Kevan Nelson, Unison’s North-west secretary, said: “This is a bit David Brent. He probably meant well but he has underestimated the impact of these changes on his staff. “Talking about your leisure plans when people’s livelihoods are in the balance is not a good idea.”

‘Two weeks in Fuerteventura!! Can’t wait’: Real-life ‘David Brent’ boss signs off email revealing dozens of council redundancies… by sharing his summer holiday plans

Union boss Kevan Nelson, Unison’s north west secretary, agreed the email was ‘inappropriate’. ‘It is a bit David Brent,’ Mr Nelson said. ‘He probably meant it well but has underestimated the impact of these changes on his staff. ‘I recognise there is a style of management where you don’t want to appear overly-autocratic, but talking […]

Go home vans should be driven off our streets

Banning the ads would be the right thing to do, but the fact that the Home Office think that this type of advertising is acceptable, shows how low this Government is prepared to stoop

Sun should drop page three across UK

The tide has turned against showing these patronizing images of women