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The numbers below are for media use only, not for queries about membership or general enquiries about the union.

Fatima is on duty this weekend (8/9 February). Please text or call as emails won’t be regularly monitored.

The main press office email address is press@unison.co.uk. You can contact individual members of the team as below:

Fatima Ayad M: 07508 080383 E: f.ayad@unison.co.uk
Liz Chinchen M: 07778 158175 E: press@unison.co.uk
Dan Ashley M: 07789 518992 E: d.ashley@unison.co.uk
Anthony Barnes M: 07834 864794 E: a.barnes@unison.co.uk

Government’s inflation measure hiding scale of cost of living crisis, says new report

Employees could be hundreds of pounds worse off every year as the true level of inflation soars in comparison to limited wage growth

UNISON backs Clive Efford’s Bill to protect the NHS from Privatisation

This is a Bill that rightly places patient care before profits. It ensures that Britain’s most loved institution operates on its founding principles of a service that meets the needs of patients and is free at the point of delivery

Bidders shortlist for cancer and end of life care contracts in Staffordshire is alarming says UNISON

We have warned that introducing the ‘prime provider’ model for cancer and end of life services in Staffordshire will lead to a massive privatisation of services.

UNISON urges government to ‘back up words with actions’ over illegal wages in home care

Crackdown on the scandal of homecare staff being paid illegal wages is long overdue

Two thirds of staff have considered leaving the NHS

Survey of nearly 30,000 union members working in the NHS, including cleaners, radiographers, nurses and senior managers, reveals how workers are feeling the strain as more than a third of respondents work unpaid overtime

UNISON survey shows financial reality of life as as NHS worker

One in five NHS workers need more than one job to make ends meet, with some working up to 26 extra hours a week.

NHS workers in England on strike

UNISON picket lines

Sending the military to the streets of London is provocative and unnecessary

Ambulance staff have a dispute with the Government and employers, not with the people of London

Increase in registration fees for nurses and midwives is deeply disappointing says UNISON

Nurses and midwives have no choice but to pay a registration fee as without it they can’t practice

NHS strike date set for Monday 13 October 2014

UNISON today confirms that its members working in the NHS in England will stage a four-hour stoppage between 7am and 11am on Monday 13 October.

UNISON reaction – Ed Miliband speech

UNISON General Secretary, Dave Prentis, reacting to the speech of the Leader of the Labour Party

UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis’s Labour Party conference speech

“Conference, our party is returning. It turned a corner at Milton Keynes. Genuine commitments were made to support the Living Wage, to end the abuse of zero hours contracts, to respect pay review body awards, to repeal the Health Act committing Labour to Nye Bevan’s NHS, real progress”.

UNISON welcomes Miliband’s pledge on national minimum wage

Hundreds of thousands of public sector workers are on the minimum wage and many have to rely on state benefits, beg at foodbanks or fall prey to payday loan sharks to make ends meet.

New hospital food rules don’t go far enough says UNISON

UNISON comments on new rules which fails to set minimum standards for food in the NHS.

Food Standard Agency strike to go ahead after employer refuses offer to try to settle dispute

A strike by workers employed by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) set down for next week will go ahead, after the FSA refused another offer by UNISON to try to settle the dispute through independent conciliation.

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