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UNISON probation members working for six community rehabilitation companies owned by Sodexo could be balloted on industrial action over the company’s voluntary redundancy terms

UNISON national delegate conference supported calls to continue and build the campaign against the privatisation of probation services

EPSU general secretary Jan Willem Goudriaan’s message to UNISON’s local government conference was that we could change Europe for the betterment of the majority of its people

Joint union fliers are available for branches organising around the probation day of action of 30 May

Delegates at the EPSU congress in Toulouse debated the threat from two global trade treaties currently being negotiated

UNISON accuses government of not knowing the price of public safety or justice over plans to privatise probation service

Probation members care too much about the protection of communities to see their jobs sold off to the private sector

The government’s admission that privatisation of the probation service has failed is welcome, but it doesn’t go far enough

Research from the Smith Institute shows that low-paid workers bear the brunt of contracting-out as their pay and conditions get worse

Probation workers in England and Wales are marking the last working day of the 107-year-old Probation Service today with a day of action highlighting their campaign to protect the probation service from privatisation

Consultation on offer to take place over the next two weeks (England and Wales)

Contact your MP and sign the online petition to stop the break-up and sell-off of the probation service

Dave Prentis pledges to put the weight of the union behind the fight against the cuts and privatisation of the police and probation services

Carolan tells delegates to make sure they take the message out beyond the conference hall to voters

Press release: 99% of UNISON members working for the probation service have voted against privatisation