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The statement calls upon the Welsh government to work with public sector employers and unions to persuade the Westminster government to reconsider. It follows the recent vote by Welsh […]

The Bill as it stands is still incredibly flawed – with attacks on members' right to strike and restrictions on […]

 “In much of the public sector, unions pay the hospital trust or the local council the cost of taking the subs at source, so there is no cost […]

Check-off is the system through which employers make deductions for union membership via the payroll – taking the cash out before it goes to the employee’s bank account. Millions of workers […]

Trying to stop nurses, care workers, teaching assistants, hospital cleaners and town hall staff from paying their union subs directly from their wages is an attack we’ve defeated before and one which we will overcome again.

Women workers fought long and hard for their right to join union, but UNISON warns that the attacks in this bill could leave them […]

He added: "I'm really proud of UNISON and the campaign we've run on check-off: persistence and focus paid off." Commenting on the […]

Despite several significant u-turns, and the watering down of aspects of the legislation, that is still the case. This is a piece of […]

The government was heavily defeated on each vote, and will now be forced to rethink its plans when the bill returns to the Commons. UNISON general […]

We didn’t manage to defeat the entire bill, but we did manage to remove several elements of it that would have irrevocably damaged the trade […]