Search Results for “Pay and conditions” tagged water ownership

Call centre working, facility time and safety in the water industry dominated UNISON

A5 2 colour leaflet outlining UNISONs Million Voices charter for water and environmental services

“Renationalisation needs to take place urgently to protect our water security and our communities, and UNISON members must be given a guarantee that they will have job security […]

‘People before profits’ is the message behind a new advertising campaign, designed to warn people about the dangers lurking in government plans to privatise more public services

Water bill rises will only pile more pressure onto hard-pressed consumers. Water companies already make huge profits and are also cutting terms, conditions, and even pensions for their […]

The manifesto - Securing the future of our public services - and related factsheets can be found on the resources section of our Million Voices campaign web pages […]

A packed agenda is topped by concerns about water ownership, and the conference will be addressed by Peter Kenway, a director of the New Policy Institute. National […]

And despite the large profits, debt levels in the industry have risen fourfold. The government wrote […]

The Greek government said in February that it wanted to sell off the water utilities of Athens and Thessaloniki, despite public anger over privatisation. Thessalonika's EYATH union played a key role […]

A reaction to another scandal of an MP taking cash and favours from an undercover journalist posing as a lobbyist, the Bill has […]

A report for UNISON by the New Policy Institute looking at the water industry in England and demonstrating how it needs radical reform

The companies are seeking approval from the regulator, Ofwat, to increase domestic bills by £156 a year to raise £96bn to modernise ageing infrastructure. Only last month, the […]

And what a year it's going to be. Attacks on public services, jobs, pay, terms and conditions, and […]

EPSU general secretary Jan Willem Goudriaan’s message to UNISON’s local government conference was that we could change Europe for the betterment of the majority of its people

In a vicious circle, the regulator rewards capital investment allowing higher and higher prices leading to profiteering. The clear solution says UNISON is to set up a national […]