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What keeps you awake at night?

Take the UNISON survey and get the chance to win a mini e-reader

Article on the UNISON National site.

Planning starts for 29 September

999 – answer the call for your NHS outside the Conservative party conference in Manchester on 29 September

Article on the UNISON National site.

Local government unions accept pay offer

Joint union letter to local government employers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland warns that 2014 offer needs to be much better

Article on the UNISON National site.

Rochdale workers to the fore in Durham

Future Directions workers were out in force at the Durham Miners Gala at the weekend, pressing their case for pay justice at the annual celebration of the labour movement

Article on the UNISON National site.

UNISON secures two-year pay deal for mining museum members

Union negotiators more than double employer’s original offer

Article on the UNISON National site.

UNISON attacks funding cuts to the ‘most vulnerable’

UNISON is determined to expose this scandal and campaign for proper funding to protect the most vulnerable

Article on the UNISON National site.

Strike ballot over plans to axe 155 community care jobs and slash salaries

UNISON members employed by Cornerstone Community Care in the West of Scotland are being balloted on industrial action following proposals to cut 155 support workers jobs

Article on the UNISON National site.

Calling all mobile workers!

Everyone needs access to a toilet to keep healthy and for mobile workers it is essential. Yet there is no law for councils to provide toilets for mobile […]

Article on the UNISON National site.

UNISON calls for massive investment in Scottish social housing

New housing policy document argues that social housing is key to reducing poverty and inequality, and their long-term effects on health and wellbeing

Article on the UNISON National site.

Rochdale carers to strike over cuts to pay and conditions

Members “care deeply” about the services they provide to vulnerable adults, but have no choice but to take strike action

Article on the UNISON National site.

Charity with caring image bullies its staff with threats of the sack

Turning Point told to practice what it preaches – and to stop tormenting its staff

Article on the UNISON National site.

Government mutuals plan is “privatisation by stealth”

UNISON calls for “serious investigation” into how mutuals would deliver public services in the interests of the public and employees

Article on the UNISON National site.

Community conference 2014

Date
28 February – 2 March 2014
Location
The Brighton Centre

The national conference of UNISON’s community service group, to discuss issues and set policy affecting members working in the community sector.

Event on the UNISON National site.

UNISON housing activists gather in Manchester

Meeting debates key issues facing those members who work in housing association

Article on the UNISON National site.

UNISON community workers join protest against bedroom tax

Tax means ‘vulnerable people will be made to suffer’

Article on the UNISON National site.