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We’ll be watching closely, and we’ll be ready to take action if the chancellor fails to fix the crisis in pay packets and public services

Today’s budget found the cash to offer tax cuts to big businesses and the highest earners – but nothing for public service pay, again

The case for the wholesale reform of the UK care system has never been stronger

Our country deserves better than this. After eight years of letting down public services and our communities, we need a radical Labour government committed to fundamental change in our economy and our society. The Tories, as this budget showed, are capable of nothing more than meddling at the margins.

Local government workers are the lowest paid in the public sector. This pay rise is affordable and long overdue.

Rate rise adds insult to injury for public service employees suffering from years of wage freezes and limits on their pay

We’re six years into the Osborne experiment, and the Chancellor is still forcing the British people to swallow the same medicine – even when it’s clear it’s not working

The NHS, councils, care and other public services need help and tax cuts won’t deliver it

Teetering public services deserve much better

But new UNISON research shows that public service workers are overwhelmingly pessimistic about chancellor Jeremy Hunt doing the right thing next week

Rescuing economy and public services should go hand in hand

Golden opportunity wasted to reward NHS staff

General secretary to call for an end to the pay freeze, real living wage for care workers and proper investment in local government

The Chancellor’s promise that there’ll be no more PFI contracts signed is welcome

The government must reverse its cuts to universal credit so that workers are allowed to keep more of the money they earn every month, says UNISON today (Thursday). Millions of workers on the minimum wage will only see a fraction of any increase, says the union, unless their monthly work allowance goes up too. This […]