Search Results for “Pay and conditions” News and Blogs tagged environment and transport

UNISON will act against ‘Orwellian’ call-centre conditions

She said an average of 60% of staff leave call centres every two years - and the solution is to stop treating workers like battery hen, "A toilet break is a human right," she […]

Article on the UNISON National site.

Secret trade agreement ‘a battle between big business and everybody else’

Delegates at both the local government and water, environment and transport conferences in Glasgow considered the notorious Transatlantic […]

Article on the UNISON National site.

UNISON members are working flat out

UNISON members are on the front lines when disasters like this strike – and as politicians heap praise on them for the work they’re doing now, it needs be remembered that […]

General Secretary's blog, News on the UNISON National site.

Drastic action needed to lift five million households out of water poverty

The research finds that almost a quarter (22 per cent) of households in England and Wales struggle to pay their water bills. According to OFWAT, the industry regulator […]

Article, News, Press release on the UNISON National site.

Water industry a ‘money-making machine’ that can well afford the living wage

Yet the majority of employers are failing to step up - as thousands of the union’s members in the sector are not even earning the minimum wage, the conference […]

Article on the UNISON National site.

United Utilities pensions closure plan rejected

The joint trade unions - UNISON, Unite, GMB and Prospect - held consultative ballots of their members, which returned 96% to 97% rejections. The […]

Article, News on the UNISON National site.

Holding back the tide

“By day and through the night, seven days a week, UNISON members are part of a team doing an essential job – […]

Article, Magazine on the UNISON National site.