Same rate for the same job, right? Wrong. You can be paid less in the UK because of your age. The minimum wage in the UK is calculated according to age: Under 18: £4.35 18-20 years old: £6.15 21-24 years old: £7.70 25 and over: £8.21 Apprentice: £3.90 Yet there’s no discount for food, bills […]
Campaigns
Council and school workers’ pay has been frozen for years. UNISON is demanding better, fairer pay for all.
Sexual harassment isn’t just problem for celebrities. It’s happening in ordinary workplaces everywhere. Join our campaign to make workplaces harassment-free zones.
The latest attack on pension rights is the thin end of the wedge. Email your MP now.
A huge network of people work together to keep our local communities going. Yet very few of us probably recognise the vital local services that we come into contact with everyday. It’s time to give our local service champions the recognition they deserve.
In the UK, on average, men earn 18% more than women. This is our gender pay gap. Find out how it happens and what UNISON is doing to bridge it.
Thousands of UNISON members are being hit by universal credit chaos. Stories of lives devastated, people left penniless and families driven to foodbanks. We are determined to make decision makers listen. And it is your personal experience that will spur them to do something.
Campaign with UNISON to ensure that all schools are properly funded and to stop cuts in your local schools.
UNISON has launched a major campaign to oppose the government’s proposals for the future of probation and to call for the service to be reunified as a locally run and locally accountable public service.
Young workers need trade unions more than ever. The houseless generation are contending with low wages, insecure jobs and no voice at work. Get involved in our campaign to recruit and organise young workers and secure protection at work for future generations.
Some NHS trusts in England are seeking to save money by creating wholly owned subsidiary companies to deliver services, otherwise known as privatisation by the back door. Say No2Subcos!
Since the 2016 EU referendum, we have been campaigning to protect the rights of EU citizens living and working in the UK.
The UK is due to leave the EU in March 2019.
As that date approaches, UNISON is determined that members’ rights, jobs and livelihoods will be protected in the final deal.
The personal, frank stories behind 10 years of austerity. Public services have reached breaking point and so have the people that deliver them. They are speaking out to expose the truth.
Austerity has hit social services hard. Instead of putting the services children and families need in place, the government’s response has been to recommend unnecessary tests. We have an important opportunity to stop them but we need to take action now.