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UNISON general secretary welcomes new language of opposition at TUC congress in Brighton today

Singer Grace Petrie joins campaigners in protest against Trade Union Bill

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Date

9 – 10 September 2015

Location

Curtis Mayfield House, Carliol Square, Newcastle, NE1 6UF

Instead of focusing on helping the country at a turbulent time, the government plans to undermine your right to be supported and represented. Will politicians see sense and drop the Trade Union Bill?

On Sunday, it will be just five weeks to the TUC’s demonstration in Manchester marking the opening of the Tory party conference

Unions not too powerful – they’re too weak, say industrial relations academics

Trying to stop nurses, care workers, teaching assistants, hospital cleaners and town hall staff from paying their union subs directly from their wages is an attack we’ve defeated before and one which we will overcome again.

Date

2 November 2015 1:30pm

Location

Westminster, London SW1A 0AA

UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis last night called on the labour movement to defend the right to strike.

Government plans to restrict trade union rights are “a strikebreaker’s charter” which would undermine the basic civil rights of working people, general secretary Dave Prentis told the union’s national executive council (NEC) in London today.

UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis will be among the speakers at a public meeting tomorrow on resisting the Trade Union Bill

Date

4 October 2015 2:00pm–6:00pm

Location

Oxford Road, Manchester

Unions and civil society must unite around a common vision of individual and collective rights that brings together all our aspirations for a good society

UNISON General Secretary Dave Prentis commenting on the publication of the Trade Union Bill.