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Young members’ weekend

It will come against a background unremitting attacks on public services, and on young people, so one focus will be a practical campaigning activity, including approaching […]

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Help illegally underpaid care workers

We are asking members to sign a petion to Vince Cable, secretary of state for trade and industry, to help catch the criminal care employers. Many care workers looking after the most […]

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Injured workers find it harder to get justice

The seminar - on "health and safety reform: regulation, litigation and risk" – also featured speakers from the Department […]

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Thanks for raising £16,000

And now the charity wants to thank UNISON and our members for your support. Their thank you message […]

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NHS strike – follow live

NHS workers are on strike from 7am to 11am. Follow the action live.

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Urgent: get your MP to back the NHS

Tomorrow, MPs get a chance to vote for Clive Efford’s private member’s bill to protect the NHS from the worst ravages of privatisation – ask your MP to back it

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Prepare to turn the spotlight on the stars in our schools

School support staff help children learn, keep children safe and healthy and make sure schools run smoothly. They are the caterers, the admin staff, the finance […]

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UNISON campaign sees critical mass of schools commit to the Living Wage

This accounts for approaching 50% of schools across the UK and is the latest success in the union's long-running campaign.  School support […]

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Living Wage Week kicks off with new rates – and a warning

Large numbers of workers in the retail, catering and care sectors, are clustered around minimum wage pay levels. Mr Prentis noted that, "the living wage […]

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Health members to stage second four-hour stoppage as pay row escalates

This will be followed by a week of action short of strike action between Tuesday 25 and Sunday 30November when members will work to rule and not do any unpaid overtime. A recent Income […]

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Britain needs a payrise – live blog

We’re marching in Belfast, Glasgow and London to show the government that we won’t stand for poverty pay any longer. Follow the live blog for the latest updates

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NHS workers are taking their breaks – live blog

NHS industrial action is not over. This week NHS staff will be taking their meal times and breaks, and ambulance workers will not be doing any voluntary over time. Follow the live blog for the latest updates

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Care UK strikers hit the streets of London

Those donations included £21,000 to former shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley as he drew up the Tory health reforms.  Care UK has been handed £102.6m […]

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Pull out the stops on pay

With industrial action scheduled in the health service (England) and local government (England, Wales and Northern Ireland) next week, leading up to national […]

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UNISON shortlisted for living wage award

Remembering the union's successful campaigning for a minimum wage, implemented in 1999, general secretary Dave Prentis said: "We won the minimum wage. I want to add […]

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