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Private company Compass claims it can’t afford an 82p pay rise despite generating £1.7bn in profit and paying their boss £4.6m

Outsourced staff were transferred back in house two years ago, but kept on minimum wage

We need real and continued growth and investment. “The largely privatised model of social care has been undermining standards of care and workforce terms and conditions,” she […]

The researchers spoke to senior figures in English hospitals and other NHS organisations, as well as other opinion formers and UNISON members. The value placed on the work of admin […]

Then when Conroy spoke to that motion at national conference in 2008, something happened to change the direction of his campaign. Sitting in the audience was the head of the Equality and Human […]

Writer and veteran campaigner Harry Leslie Smith looks to the past and shares his hopes – and fears – for the future

Five years of austerity have ‘inflicted long-term damage ‘on Welsh communities

Thousands of members expected to take part in two-week action

UNISON has called on Besti Cadwaladr University Health Board to withdraw their plans to close a consultant-led maternity unit

UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis has been leading the international trade union response to the threats posed by trade and investment agreements this week.

Campaigners set off from Jarrow to make 999 call for the NHS to Parliament – find out how you can join in and support the marchers

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

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

Truro demonstration will show opposition to plans to move 600 NHS staff to a private company

The decision about the future of staff, which includes the closure of dozens of offices across the UK, is to be made at a private session in the board meeting tomorrow