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As well as fighting for fairer pay, UNISON members within the Food Standards Agency (FSA) are also battling privatisation and […]

The guidance, which was published on 31 March, governs pay setting arrangements throughout the civil service […]

Proposed changes by the Food Standards Agency also risk the jobs of UNISON members who are integral to meat hygiene

Members will be being asked to fill in a survey via a regular newsletter update later this month. Police and justice Police staff members in England and Wales have been […]

In partnership with Steve Nash, a campaigner whose six-year-old daughter Joanna died of E Coli, UNISON handed in a petition of 216,938 signatures to the Food Standards Agency

Local government pledges continued campaign against privatisation and deregulation of meat hygiene service

Dozens of meat hygiene inspectors will be hired

The FSA must act now and take on more directly-employed meat inspectors

As Christmas approaches, UNISON is highlighting the importance of keeping the meat we eat hygienic by making sure slaughterhouses continue to be inspected by well-trained state-employed meat hygiene inspectors and official veterinarians

As the Food Standards Agency proposes loosening the regulation of meat, UNISON is working with change.org and the family of a food poisoning victim, to fight back

UNISON and War on Want have launch a new film highlighting the threat to our food posed by the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership

UK consumers face a heightened risk of food poisoning from chicken purchased in supermarkets and restaurants if independent meat inspectors are removed from slaughterhouses

Ben Priestley, UNISON national officer, said: "British bangers flavoured with cysts or abscesses can now make their way […]

Successful mass rally over Northumberland council car allowance scheme

In the wake of the Horsemeat scandal, UNISON has written to the Chair of the Food Standards Agency, and FSA Board Members, to ask for a meeting to discuss the Agency’s on-going policy of de-regulating meat inspection in the UK. Now is not the time to be cutting back on independent meat inspection, which is what protects consumers from contaminated meat. Read more here…