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 […]

"Our salvation is our own strength," Mr Prentis said. "We can't wait around for a change of government." The NEC agreed a timescale and full procedures for a general secretary election in 2015 […]

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 […]

‘Now at least UNISON can concentrate on campaigning to protect public sector employees at work and the services they deliver’

To end check-off would have a major effect on partnership working in health, in schools, in local government.” Countless local authorities have voiced their opposition to the bill, with the Convention of […]

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

UNISON Cymru/Wales head of local government Dominic MacAskill, who is staff side secretary of the Joint Council for Wales, said: “This bill […]

The government was heavily defeated on each vote, and will now be forced to rethink its plans when the bill […]

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

Attacking the "vicious, vindictive bill", which the government prefered to spend time on rather than dealing with the real problems that the country faces, he […]

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 […]