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The country needs a Labour government.” Media contact: Liz Chinchen M: 07778 158175 […]

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 […]

***The Select Committee report made recommendations for others to produce various reports; the Local Government Association, Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and Arts Council England (ACE) by the […]

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

The government’s reforms have proved expensive, pointless and exposed the health service to unnecessary and […]

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

“The sooner probation is put back into local control to restore the confidence of staff, service users and the public, the better. The ruin […]

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

“That is why UNISON is calling again on the government to end the private contracts and reunify probation as a locally run and locally managed service.” […]

Emma Hoddinott from Yorkshire warned that "another £3bn of cuts in local government will harm members and communities". Conference called for a co-ordinated campaign to defend jobs […]

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 […]

We are urging the council to come back to the negotiating table." UNISON Greater London UNISON in local government Key issue […]