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With many UNISON members – for example, teaching assistants, hospital cleaners, home care workers, healthcare assistants, nurses, PCSOs and street cleaners – set to be affected by the changes […]

“At first glance low-paid workers might look quids in, but on closer inspection the Chancellor is really rewarding them with an […]

Victory in the Lords is only the beginning of UNISON’s hard-fought campaign to protect tax credits for working people

UNISON head of local government Heather Wakefield said: “Local government workers are the lowest paid in the public sector. This pay rise is affordable and long overdue. With […]

If you’re eligible for tax credits, you really should check that you’re claiming all that you’re entitled to. It only takes a couple of minutes.

I’m already young members' officer in my branch and I’m on the regional and national young members' forum, so they […]

Nearly three million working families countrywide have breathed a collective sigh of relief, says UNISON general secretary

The vote on tax credits is a tremendous win for ordinary people struggling to get by on low pay – but it’s only a beginning

Thousands upon thousands of UNISON members – and their families – took time on Sunday to come to Manchester and march

It is about care workers, healthcare assistants, medical secretaries and nurses. We’ve crunched the numbers and if […]

The chancellor should use tomorrow’s spring statement to scrap the rules that penalise low-income families applying for universal credit and tax credits, says UNISON today (Tuesday). Any parents currently applying for universal credit only get help for the first two children, if their younger sons or daughters were born on or after 6 April 2017. […]

UNISON says the policy is pushing families into poverty

With many UNISON members – for example, teaching assistants, hospital cleaners, home care workers, healthcare assistants, nurses, PCSOs and street cleaners – set to be affected by the changes […]

With many UNISON members – for example, teaching assistants, hospital cleaners, home care workers, healthcare assistants, nurses, PCSOs and street cleaners – set to be affected by the changes […]

With many UNISON members – for example, teaching assistants, hospital cleaners, home care workers, healthcare assistants, nurses, PCSOs and street cleaners – set to be affected by the changes […]