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Ms Raynor was moving the union's motion to TUC on saving local government. She noted that local government has already seen three years of drastic cuts, including youth […]

Cuts will rob future generations of the the vital services that a library can provide, says the union

UNISON report shows up role of Department for International Development in promoting healthcare privatisation to some of the world’s poorest countries

Union calls for bar on tax-evading firms winning public contracts

“As an immediate fix ministers should scrap the damaging competition rules that force the NHS to sell off its services to private firms. “They must also get rid of this […]

The attack on public services gives us a chance to build links with community allies to counteract the divisions that keep people from acting together

Grayling’s botched reforms have finally been abandoned

This research commissioned for UNISON gives the detailed evidence of major contracts being brought to an end and services coming back in-house, benefitting service users, workers, and council-tax- payers alike

She called the system “irredeemably flawed,” adding: “Above all, it has proved well-nigh impossible to reduce probation to a set of contractual requirements. “Professional […]

Conference called for a co-ordinated campaign to defend jobs and services including: a recruitment and organising campaign […]

EPSU general secretary Jan Willem Goudriaan’s message to UNISON’s local government conference was that we could change Europe for the betterment of the majority of its people

UNISON members have a ‘mountain to climb’ on local government pay, the NHS and the welfare state, but are equal to the task, says general secretary

“This government claims it is not privatising the NHS but transferring nearly a quarter of the workforce of NHS […]

Over 600 UNISON members working for Barnet Council are in the middle of a 48-hour strike in an increasingly bitter row over outsourcing of council services