Discuss how the new “social provisions” in the UK and Scotland public procurement regulations will provide new procurement opportunities for branches and regions to campaign for commissioning and contracting authorities to improve employment terms and conditions.
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
The decision about the future of staff, which includes the closure of dozens of offices across the UK, is to be made at a private session in the board meeting tomorrow.
The TPA has wasted the precious time and money of the NHS by asking for pointless information in its latest FoI
News that the George Eliot Hospital has been pulled back from the brink of privatisation has been greeted as a victory for common sense by UNISON
The George Eliot Hospital Trust (GEHT) is being steamrollered into private hands without patients and staff being given a proper say
Profits could be put before pupils, and head teachers could lose control of vital services in 80 academies across the country, as part of a proposal for an unprecedented privatisation of school services
G4S and SERCO are the “tip of the iceberg” when it comes to government contractors failing woefully and wasting millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money
Union calls for clarification and for procurement process to be put on hold as George Eliot Hospital is ‘buddied’ with University Hospitals Birmingham
UNISON Cymru/Wales is calling on the Welsh government to take positive step forward to tackle in-work poverty through the payment of the living wage
UNISON has urges the board at Nuneaton’s George Eliot Hospital to think again over plans that could see the hospital going to the private sector
Activists from branches all across the region are sending coaches to Manchester to coincide with the Conservative Party national conference for the national Save the NHS rally on 29 September
Press release: New finance minister Simon Hamilton says he seeks to create a new division to reform the public sector
‘We want to start fighting back and putting money into our members’ pockets’
