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Companies must be held to account when they fail to prevent abuses and harms

UNISON demands that a migrant workers’ centre is created in Qatar, as the key legacy of the global sporting event

Gonul Erden faces charges of ‘terrorism’ for her trade union work, when she was co-president of the public health and services union SES

Kurdish woman died in hospital after three days in police custody

Abortion is still illegal in the UK, with a recent report revealing that a woman was arrested straight after a stillbirth in Cornwall and remains under investigation

Our eight colleagues were arrested on 25 May 2021, when police raided their homes in the early hours of the morning. Five stand accused of leading a terrorist […]

Privatisation and the shredding of the social safety net are trademark cruelties of Margaret Thatcher’s […]

Darnelly Rodriguez is a human rights defender in southwest Colombia. She documented police violence during trade union led protests in 2021 and set up a medical centre to treat the wounded […]

International committee welcomes IFJ’s complaint to the International Criminal Court regarding Israel’s targeting of journalists working in Palestine

UNISON stands in solidarity with eight trade unionists in Turkey charged with terrorism offences for carrying out their union duties

Peter Read has worked at the Isle of Grain for around 16 years and is also the UNISON branch chair, with a membership density of around 90% among […]

The union is also encouraging members and branches to donate to the Disasters Emergency Committee appeal

UNISON is working with the international trade union movement to mobilise support for those affected by the war in Ukraine – and branches and members can help too

UNISON won’t stop advocating for more sanctions until the military junta collapses

Canada stopped imports in November, over the same concerns. The UK government launched its own investigation […]