The government has missed the perfect opportunity to encourage private companies to pay their staff the living wage by not taking full advantage of new European guidelines that come into force today (Thursday) says UNISON.
UNISON is calling on the government to delay its new public procurement regulations, the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, which came into force today for all public service contracts – except those for NHS England – in England, Wales and Northern Ireland
Dave Prentis tells NEC that May will see “the most important election for the future of our union that has been fought”
NHS England remain committed to the privatisation of primary care support (PCS) services in England – tendering process is now under way for a 10 year, £1billion contract – one of the largest ever tendered in the NHS
A staggering 93% of councils in England and Wales don’t make it a contractual condition for homecare providers to pay care workers for travel time
This procurement exercise like many others in the NHS are hugely expensive. And this is an expense the NHS can't afford. "While it's a victory for UNISON, for campaigners, for […]
Theatre nurse Eleanor Smith tells Labour: ‘We can still save the health service – but the time to act is now”
Nearly half of hospitals expect to be in the red in 2014-15, TUC delegates told
Last week – and 78 years after the original Jarrow march to parliament – a group of mothers from Darlington set off from Jarrow to London to protest against the privatisation of the NHS
What you can do to help stop a £1.2bn privatisation of key NHS services caring for cancer patients and terminally ill patients in Staffordshire
Survey shows 19% of councils in England do not know whether the homecare providers they commission pay their staff the national minimum wage
UNISON has warned NHS commissioners that secrecy over health tendering in Staffordshire is against public interest and demands full disclosure of procurement plans.
A proposed trade deal between the EU and the US would allow private companies to hold the UK to ransom, unless a proposed clause allowing big business to sue the Government is scrapped
UNISON welcomes recommendation from scrutiny committee at Caerphilly council to utlise in-house services to progress plans for Oakdale secondary school
Concern at the rise in use of zero-hours contracts sees a range of motions to conference on tackling the issue
