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The voluntary sector has become just another front in Cameron’s clampdown on free speech

Despite the government’s claims to the contrary, their plans are about gagging charities and charity workers from conducting necessary scrutiny.

General Secretary's blog, News on the UNISON National site.

Well-run charities don’t treat their staff with contempt

We’ll be calling on all of those who work with the charity – their trustees, local authorities who support them and celebrity supporters – to take a look at what is being done in […]

General Secretary's blog, News on the UNISON National site.

Time to stop the violence plaguing workers in the community sector

MPs join UNISON members and employers at parliamentary launch of union’s Violence at Work charter

Article, News on the UNISON National site.

Action for Children unions ballot for industrial action in pay dispute

High-handed action by bosses over pay at the charity Action for Children has prompted Unite and UNISON to ballot their members for industrial action. The unions said that management intends to impose a one per cent pay award for 2015/16, with no cost of living rise for 40 per cent of the 5,000 strong workforce. […]

Press release on the UNISON National site.

To Russia, with love

Whether it be a vodka drinking contest with locals in Kyrgyzstan, being taken for shashlik by Uzbeki students, cups of tea with fellow travellers at […]

Blogs on the UNISON National site.

Environment Agency officer and ‘volunteering legend’ receives MBE

Charan Sekhon, a UNISON branch welfare and equalities officer, received the award for over two decades of charitable works

Magazine, UNISON people on the Magazine site.