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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

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Name and shame councils if care providers ignore the minimum wage

UNISON has called on the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills to name and shame councils who commission social care employers that flout minimum wage laws

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Police staff morale at all time low

UNISON, the UK’s largest union, is warning that police staff morale in England, Wales and Scotland is at an all time low, as a new survey (Sunday 17 August) reveals a third are ‘very stressed’.

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Rise of number of self-employed shows underemployment is rife says UNISON

Underemployment is now a bitter reality for millions of struggling families across the UK. And many have no option but to work part-time because they cannot find a full-time job

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Time to come clean on abuses in cleaning industry

Widespread abuses in the cleaning industry are to come under the spotlight with the setting up of a new taskforce by the Equalities and Human Rights Commission.

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Strike action step closer in Food Standards Agency

Meat hygiene inspectors, vets and support staff employed by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action, over a long running pay dispute.

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Government cuts plunge youth work into crisis, warns UNISON report

More than 2000 youth workers have been axed and 350 youth centres closed since 2012 as a direct result of Coalition Government cuts, a new report by UNISON has found.

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Gender pay gap is a disgrace

Women’s work is still not being valued despite the fact they often are in vital jobs for society working as nurses, carers and midwives

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NHS England funding for charities ‘a drop in the ocean’

UNISON commenting on the £2m from NHS England to go into helping the elderly avoid hospital this winter

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UNISON comments on Government letter to the independent NHS PRB

The Government’s confirmation that the NHS PRB will not be required to make recommendations on pay awards for Agenda for Change staff for 2015/16, is a “slap in the face to NHS staff” said UNISON today.

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UNISON reacts to justice select committee report on mesothelioma claims

The Justice Select Committee’s call for a full Governmental review on the changes introduced last year to the legal funding of personal injury claims and the impact these would have on mesothelioma sufferers is the only fair course, said UNISON, the UK’s largest union today

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UNISON rejects nursing and midwifery council plans to raise registration fees

UNISON, the UKs largest trade union, has rejected the NMC proposals to increase registration fees for nurses and midwives by 20% from next year

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Unions to escalate pay strike action in October

Unions representing over a million local government workers – GMB, UNISON and Unite – have agreed to escalate their dispute over pay with a campaign running into the autumn.

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Tribunal orders council to compensate workers offered cash to sign away rights

Bromley Council has been ordered to pay more than £64,000 in compensation to 18 of its staff

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UNISON moves to ballot angry NHS workers over pay

UNISON, the UK’s largest health union is to ballot its 300,000 NHS members in England for strike action

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Meat hygiene inspectors to be balloted for strike action

Ballot papers to go out next week to more than 500 UNISON members working for the FSA in England, Wales and Scotland

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