Search Results for “Local government” tagged TUC

As will an environment where unions are no longer demonised by the government. “Bringing strike ballots into the digital age is long overdue. As are fair pay agreements to […]

Public services, wages and staff would be better treated under Labour

Christina McAnea tells TUC that co-ordination with other unions will deliver results on pay

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

"The government must invest properly in public services and respect workers by paying them fairly and keeping them […]

  “The blame for all this belongs firmly at the door of the government in Westminster.   “Workers across all public services, and everyone who relies on them, can […]

Climate change, the COVID-19 Inquiry and a change of government were amongst the debates in Liverpool this week

"We fought for the rights this government is trying to take away. Legal rights didn’t bring us into existence - we made them happen. And […]

“Higher wages must be at the heart of the government’s economic plan. We need a return to proper year-on-year pay rises, and a higher national minimum […]

Twenty-seven years ago they won back that right. Today, the Conservative government is attempting to restrict the right to strike for over five million workers. Last year, it […]

On 14 October, the TUC will be asking workers to visit their local MPs at constituency surgeries to spell out what the cost of living crisis really means. The […]

Soaring inflation has superseded ministers’ miserly pay proposal

“We knew this government wasn’t ready. This lack of PPE [personal protective equipment] caused unnecessary exposure and a […]

“Despite UNISON’s historic victory against the government’s extortionate tribunal fees, the balance has swung firmly in favour of employers. But today […]

Ms Egan stated that local government workers, despite all their sacrifice in the peaks of the pandemic, are now facing a pay cut, with […]