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

There are more people who need social care, more young people who need extra support in schools, more people who don’t even have a home to live in […]

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 […]

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

The announcement to staff came at a briefing on next year‘s budget. “People clapped when the pay rise was announced,” UNISON branch secretary Kev Standishday told the local newspaper, The […]

Health pay, local government cuts, outsourcing, Brexit…. new term, same curriculum

UNISON backs BBC report that reveals loss of 8,000 jobs and 343 libraries in six years

Debates see delegates back a range of measures on pay, academies, funding and much more

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

Fewer loos means a public inconvenience

By slashing police funding, all the government has managed to do is make it harder to fight crime effectively […]

We were promised ‘a people’s government’, and he crowed: "We are going to unite and level up" – one of the slogans that helped secure the […]

Councils need proper funding to help young people

Salford UNISON, parents and mayor put the case to Nadhim Zahawi

It was a bank holiday and she was terribly upset and unable to stop crying, because she was aware that, in her words, her ‘brain was going’. “The purpose of […]

Local government funding and Brexit dominate debates at first business meeting