Search Results for “Local government” tagged trade union bill 2015

Government plan to replace Human Rights Act is ‘the gravest threat to freedom in Britain since the Second World War’

They call the government's rationale for its bill "perverse", adding that unions are an important voice for workers […]

Living standards are at painful lows for many of the poorest in our society. In short, the government has its work cut out over the coming months and years. Why, then, is the government needlessly […]

Government plans to restrict trade union rights are “a strikebreaker’s charter” which would undermine the basic civil rights of working people, general secretary Dave Prentis told the union’s national executive council (NEC) in London today.

Dave Prentis comments on the announcement in the Lords that the government is no longer to stop unions from collecting members’ subs via their pay packets

David Owen of the Halton local government branch said that “a pattern” had developed whereby service group pay disputes ended after […]

I’m glad that the government have seen sense at this late stage. Dave Prentis’s blog UNISON general secretary Dave […]

‘Scrapping check-off will be hugely disruptive for unions and the working people who belong to them,’ says Dave Prentis

Commenting on the debate today (Wednesday) in the Commons that has seen the government accept many of the Trade Union Bill amendments made last week in the Lords, UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis said: “Without these significant changes, unions representing working people across the UK would have found it hard to continue doing what they […]

UNISON General Secretary Dave Prentis commenting on the publication of the Trade Union Bill

Cymru/Wales local government employers defend facility time, check-off and union rights for council workers

Peers vote for three key changes to the government’s damaging trade union reforms

"We have made clear to the UK government that, as significant parts of the Bill relate specifically to public services which are devolved […]

General secretary highlights ‘vicious, vindictive’ nature of government attack on unions, as he addresses LGBT conference

Ms Ward, who chairs the service group executive, condemned the government's Trade Union Bill, its systematic removal of workers' rights and introduction of tribunal fees […]