UNISON’s Local Government Service Group Executive Committee has agreed to hold a Local Government Service Group Conference on Sunday 16th June to Monday 17th June 2024. We have now opened the Online Conference System (OCS) to allow branches to register delegates and submit motions in line with the rule-book requirements
They are employed in the public, voluntary and private sectors. Media contacts: Anthony Barnes M: 07834 864794 E: a.barnes@unison.co.uk Liz Chinchen […]
And an ever-decreasing number of staff means the ones left are worn out. Yet council and school workers continue with their hard work to keep our communities together – supporting our most […]
She said Labour was inspired by UNISON’s work on insourcing, bringing services back into local authority control. In January, Barnet council announced that it would bring 330 workers back into […]
Its legacy will be crumbling hospital estates, outdated equipment, appalling waiting lists and NHS staff at their wits’ ends. “Investment’s been drained for 14 years, capacity’s tumbling […]
She was addressing the union’s annual local government conference in Liverpool as workers continue to vote in one of the biggest strike ballots the union […]
UNISON’s Local Government Service Group Executive Committee has agreed to hold a Local Government Service Group Conference on Sunday 11th June 2023 to Monday 12th June2023. We have now opened the Online Conference System (OCS) to allow branches to register delegates and submit motions in line with the rule-book requirements
If ministers had even a basic grasp of the sector, they would have reformed it long ago
Unless councils and schools can pay competitive rates, employees will find better-paid, less-stressful work elsewhere and new […]
Next government must make social care a priority
The decision does not affect the ongoing local government pay dispute in Scotland. It means an increase of £1,925 on all NJC (National Joint Council) pay […]
Tony Barnsley, introducing the motion on behalf of the NJC local government committee, said: “The pandemic shone a light on social care for a lot of people in this country […]
Gambling with lives is a disgrace
Our communities depend on the 1.3 million local government workers who spend their working lives looking out for others. We may not see them when they’re […]
When Wendy Williams first published her independent review into the government’s treatment of the Windrush generation in 2020, Priti Patel, who was home secretary at the time […]
