As the pressure on public services continues to grow, our members are faced with uncertainty about their jobs and their futures. This is a stressful time when they may need the assistance of their branch. As branches we have seen the increase in casework, ever more complex, dealing with restructure after restructure, fighting redundancies and […]
Nevertheless, their role means they’re not thanked in the same way teachers or NHS staff are. Does it get to them? “If you are making decisions where you may have to remove a child […]
Faced with growing pressure from UNISON to comply with minimum wage laws many care companies are now claiming they cannot afford to pay their workers legally. Conference condemns the actions […]
Thursday 28 May 2020 For immediate release Support staff losing sleep and suffering anxiety ahead of return to school in England, says UNISON Anxiety is widespread among school workers about their safety, their families’ and that of pupils ahead of a return to the classroom across England, says UNISON today (Thursday). On the day unions […]
Another tactic is to transfer services to arms length companies that then try to exclude new starters from the Public Sector Schemes. There are a number of […]
Conference condemns the Conservative-Lib Dem coalition for the widespread and unprecedented destruction of public services that has resulted from the savage and unprecedented reductions in central government funding to local government, health, education, police, probation and the rest of the public sector. Public sector workers have borne the brunt of this in job losses, the […]
In October 2016 Deloittes published their annual ‘State of the State’ report. It received widespread media coverage due to the sensational headline of up to 861,000 public sector job losses (16% of the overall workforce) due to automation by 2030. The findings are based on; three separate categories of jobs, the predicted job growth and […]
Conference notes that automation and digitisation of jobs is changing the nature, quality, and distribution of employment, not just within sectors such as manufacturing and distribution, but in the sphere of public services too. Conference also notes that a number of recent studies predict that between 25% and 40% of current UK jobs could be […]
Universal (or Unconditional) Basic Income, also known as Citizen’s Income, is a redistributive policy proposal that has been around for centuries, and is once again making headlines. It was advocated by Martin Luther King, Jr. shortly before his death, among many others. The idea is that every single citizen, as a non-withdrawable right, receives a […]
We enable the business to run – whether that's within a local authority, within the NHS, in call centres. None of our public services can function without these support staff.” The […]
The government must do more to help thousands of “hidden workers” who are being put under extra pressure or are seeing their health put at risk as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, says UNISON today (Tuesday). Alongside the frontline health and care staff, there are people around the UK keeping essential services going, who […]
Conference agrees that the government’s academies and free schools programme: Redirects hundreds of millions of pounds that could be better spent on existing schools; Weakens local authorities; Undermines national pay and conditions for employees; Breaks up admission arrangements; Harms the democratic planning of school places; Is unpopular with parents and the public in general to […]
Hard-working public sector workers from Europe who came to the UK to work for our NHS, schools and social care, must also be reassured they are welcome and can remain. Conference […]
Coordinated response needed to protect anxious staff Social care workers across the country are at breaking point with many being given just plastic aprons and gloves to protect against coronavirus as they support the vulnerable and elderly, says UNISON today (Tuesday). Care workers say some managers are either refusing to issue face masks or […]
UNISON welcomes the re-establishment of diplomatic relations between the US and Cuba in 2015. However, we note that the US blockade remains in place and Guantánamo Bay continues to be illegally US-occupied. UNISON notes that the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control imposed 52 fines on US and overseas companies for carrying out […]
