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Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced a public sector pay freeze in the government’s spending review last week, backed up by some claims that need further analysis

“Workers across the country will be relieved they’ll get sick pay or immediate access to universal credit […]

More must be done to make mental health services safer and kinder places to work

The council is backing UNISON’s campaigns on ending the public sector pay cap and promoting dignity in social care

The government needs to take action in next week’s budget

If it did, it would lift more than 60,000 cleaners, library assistants, residential and home care workers and other local authority staff out of poverty, says UNISON. The new living wage rates are due […]

Ministers must accept responsibility for their failure to properly support health workers who are going flat out to cope with increased demands and fewer resources. Refusing to guarantee […]

Welcoming the Chancellor’s decision to increase tax insurance to pay for flood defences, UNISON General Secretary Dave Prentis said: “More funding for flood defences should help save people the pain of washed out homes and businesses. “During the recent storms, when flood defences were breached and rivers burst their banks, at times there weren’t enough […]

Commenting on today’s Budget, UNISON General Secretary Dave Prentis said: “Six years of severe cuts to public spending have done little to pay down the deficit, despite the Chancellor’s promises. Yet still he insists on continuing with his failing economic experiment. “The Chancellor’s policies have wreaked untold damage to essential community services. Local councils have […]

Housing policies announced in the July Budget will lead to fewer social homes at social rents being built, and will cause hardship to vulnerable tenants on modest incomes, says UNISON

Chancellor can find the money when it suits him

Rishi Sunak should give something back on behalf of the nation

It will take time and substantial investment for them to recover. “Councils need an end to this nightmare created on Downing Street. An extra bit of […]

Giving public service workers a pat on the back isn’t going to put food on their table

Public meeting calls for local community to have the chance to consider proposals and suggest alternatives