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“Local authority budgets have been cut to the bone after 14 years of slashed budgets, and that’s had a serious impact on communities. “With so many councils teetering on the brink […]

Local services will only be resilient with “a valued and fairly rewarded workforce”

Headline cost is halved by economic benefits

Others have to borrow from friends or family, or access state benefits to make ends meet, according to the […]

In addition the unions want all employees to receive a five per cent pay rise. The claim follows eight years of government-imposed pay restraint, which has seen wages […]

UNISON local government members in England, Wales and Northern Ireland to be consulted in new year on employer’s final offer

Local government workers protest over slashed car allowance

This year Glasgow’s homelessness caseworkers decided to go on strike. This is their story

Hundreds of the lowest-paid workers in school kitchens across the north London borough of Camden will be paid a living wage, following a UNISON-led campaign

Claim for living wage and associated flat-rate pay rise follows special local government conference decision

We thought we had been making progress in trying to identify alternatives to this drastic measure. "The chief executive appears to be determined not […]

UNISON to the fore as Lords debate working conditions in the care sector

Latest local authority to adopt charter will help people in the borough who receive homecare services as well as the 860 strong home care workforce

Members of all three local government unions have voted to accept a pay offer put forward by the Local Government Association

A new leaflet outlines what the Local Government Association’s latest pay proposal means for members