Search Results for “Pay and conditions” tagged local government cuts

Council cuts could mean more children in need let down

On the streets, in workplaces, in communities up and down the country, real people still have real needs that need to be met. And one story of recent […]

General Secretary's blog on the UNISON National site.

UNISON fair funding lobby of Welsh Assembly

In a mass lobby, UNISON members will hand over a local petition signed by the Neath Port Talbot public to Assembly members at 1pm, and […]

Article, News on the UNISON National site.

UNISON general secretary salutes members ahead of Rhondda lobby

Local government workers protest over slashed car allowance

News, Press release on the UNISON National site.

UNISON lobbies for pay justice for school and council workers

UNISON activists from across Wales will gather at 10.15am at the LGA’s pay briefing road show at the Builth Wells showground, to call for pay justice for school and council […]

News, Press release on the UNISON National site.

Save our children’s centres

He saw firsthand the great work that the centre is doing in supporting children and families. But Mr Prentis […]

Article, News on the UNISON National site.

The truth about the cuts: the homecare worker

It was a bank holiday and she was terribly upset and unable to stop crying, because she was aware that, in her words, her […]

Article on the UNISON National site.

The truth about the cuts: the social worker

If your son loses his job and he’s the breadwinner, the mother and father are bound to worry about their grandchildren […]

Article on the UNISON National site.

The truth about the cuts

“We need more classroom assistants, but the school can’t afford to pay them. “I went to this school myself. In those days it was fantastic, but now it’s changed […]

Magazine on the UNISON National site.

UNISON teams with young people to fight cuts to youth services

Inside the chamber, four local young people spoke against the cuts. “They argued passionately and effectively against the cuts in their statement, which had a substantial impact on councillors at […]

Article, News on the UNISON National site.

Public library service ‘hollowed out’ by job losses and cuts

The BBC revealed that almost 8,000 library jobs have disappeared in the past six years – about a quarter of the total – and 343 libraries have […]

Article on the UNISON National site.

No consultation on Ceredigion council cuts

UNISON Cymru Wales is furious that public money is being wasted and trade union representatives have been frozen out of the consultation process so far. The union is […]

Press release on the UNISON National site.

Delegates call for action on local government pay

Head of local government Heather Wakefield called the pay cap “a poisonous Tory cocktail, eating away at your living […]

Article on the UNISON National site.

Education dominates local government conference on final afternoon

But Pam Howard for the executive also stated that there had to be a two-strand approach, where the union also organised within academies when and where they exist. She added […]

Article, News on the UNISON National site.

Tide is turning against government’s austerity programme, says UNISON

The public willingness to accept cuts to public services is ‘exhausted’

News on the UNISON National site.

Adult social care is the biggest pressure on councils

Research reveals the pressure on councils

Article, News on the UNISON National site.