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

For a prompt response to your media inquiry and to reach the whole team, please email press@unison.co.uk. 

Fatima Ayad M: 07508 080383 E: f.ayad@unison.co.uk
Liz Chinchen M: 07778 158175 E: l.chinchen@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

NHS staff likely to be disappointed with this year’s pay rise

Award of 3.6% shows pay review body process should be ditched

Probation is key to fixing prison crisis but needs significant funding boost

Sentencing review recognises importance of probation service

Making work pay, not benefit cuts, is key to helping people with employment

Winter fuel allowance should be restored to those who need it

Health secretary should follow Scottish lead with direct pay talks

Deal in Scotland shows why pay review body process should be ditched

Give care workers a £2,000 pay rise to help tackle workforce crisis

Raising wages in care is the first step to turning around this beleaguered sector.

Reform of care must be priority as overseas recruitment ends

Crackdown on unscrupulous employers is welcome

NHS and social care would have collapsed long ago without overseas staff

Many workers will be understandably concerned about their futures

Ethnicity pay gap must end, says UNISON

The law must change so employers have to report their pay gaps and disparities can be tackled

Job and service cuts won’t help the NHS improve services for patients, says UNISON

The government should give trusts the breathing space to deliver the improvements the public and ministers want to see

Damning report should lead to devolved probation service

Toxic conditions in the service are a legacy of Grayling reforms and underfunding

Reform councillors have much to learn about local government and its hard-working staff

Budgets have been slashed to the bone and there’s little left to cut

Support home care workers with greener and cheaper transport, says UNISON

Help needed to enable low-paid staff to make the switch

Violence against ambulance workers is unacceptable

No one should be attacked for simply doing their job.

Too few nursing staff on duty to provide safe NHS care

Staffing levels across the health service are alarmingly low on a regular basis.

Government must move swiftly on NHS pay, says UNISON

Bills have risen for health staff but no sign yet of wage rise

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