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Local government delegates in Glasgow this afternoon discussed how low pay was afflicting members, particularly […]

UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis welcomes delegates to local government conference in Glasgow

As a result, members face an uncertain future. Despite government pledges that schools will be protected from cuts, some school support staff - from school crossing […]

Hundreds call for reinstatement of conference centre employee

With the election of a Tory majority government we are now facing a crisis," she said. "We have a government that wants to attack facility time […]

Keep up to date with all the speeches, fringe events and activities at UNISON’s national delegate conference next week

Delegates at both the local government and water, environment and transport conferences in Glasgow considered the notorious Transatlantic […]

Trade unions continue to have a crucial role in tackling inequality, conference told

“But now the government wants to go for the jugular." However, she said, UNISON was ready to meet their challenges […]

"We are under attack from a vicious, vindictive Tory government - attacking our jobs, the services we provide, attacking our democracy, attacking our funding, even […]

‘The stakes could not be higher’ in fight against free trade agreement

Conference

2015 National Women's Conference

Date

4 September 2014

Decision

Carried

Zero hours contracts are slowly edging into mainstream local government and other services and are being routinely used as cheaper alternative to permanent contracts. A good example of this appalling practice is within Register Offices, which is an occupation predominately staffed by women. This practice involves saving money on staffing as zero hours contracts have […]

Conference

2015 National Delegate Conference

Date

2 February 2015

Decision

Carried

Conference notes recent agreements between the Con-Dem Coalition Government and some Combined Authority (CA) areas. a)In Greater Manchester, the CA was established in […]

Conference

2015 National Delegate Conference

Date

1 January 2015

Decision

Carried

Conference is angered that between 2010 and 2015 a five year austerity programme, driven by Conservative ideology rather than national necessity, saw massive cuts in public spending, huge public sector redundancies and pay restraint across the public services on an unprecedented scale. In his 2014 Autumn Statement last year, George Osborne let it slip that […]

Conference

2015 National Delegate Conference

Date

24 February 2015

Decision

Carried as Amended

Conference notes with concern that community, health and local government social workers have long been vilified in the media when things go wrong. Individual social workers have seen their careers destroyed when they have been held to account for the failures of the employer to fund the service properly. Portrayal of social workers in television […]