Most UNISON branch officers, stewards and safety reps will negotiate with employers at some time.

It is how you protect and promote the interests of your members and create fairness and equality at work.

These in-depth guides, along with our training courses and explanation of the process, give you the tools you need for effective negotiating and bargaining with employers.

Guides

Model templates

Our model templates can help you when negotiating and bargaining with managers or employers on behalf of UNISON members. (Model templates open as Word documents.)

• Model appraisal procedure
• Model apprenticeship agreement
• Model annual leave agreement
• Model capability procedure
• Model disciplinary procedure
• Model equality and diversity policy
• Model family leave and pay policy (maternity, paternity, adoption, shared parental leave, parental leave)
• Model facility time agreement
• Model flexible working agreement
• Model grievance procedure agreement
• Model home working and hybrid working agreement
• Model learning agreement
• Model migrant workers support and retention policy
• Model organisational change agreement
• Model pay claim
• Model pay survey
• Model procurement agreement
• Model recognition agreement
• Model sickness absence agreement
• Model trans equality policy
• Model violence at work policy
• Model whistleblowing policy
• Model workload agreement
• Model workload survey
• Model workplace policy on domestic violence and abuse

Reports

Reports commissioned by UNISON that provide analysis in support of bargaining and negotiating activity. (Reports open as PDFs.)

• Consumer Price Indices in the UK – full report
• Consumer Price Indices in the UK – summary
• Statisticians Arguments in Favour of the RPI
• Facility time – full report
• Facility time – summary
• From pay squeeze to staffing crisis
• Impact of austerity on members
• Lifting the cap
• Outsourcing the cuts
• Pay premium
• Pay progression in the public sector