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Government told to think again on promoting private healthcare

UNISON report shows up role of Department for International Development in promoting healthcare privatisation to some of the world’s poorest countries

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Colombia still needs human rights monitoring despite peace deal

UNISON calls for renewed pressure on right-wing paramilitary groups, as the peace process moves towards a referendum

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Prentis seeks top-level Brexit meetings with government

UNISON’s general secretary wants to ensure ‘the best possible outcomes’ for members

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Help campaign against FGM and child marriage

Donate now to the UNISON-supported fundraising campaign to support West African activists working to end FGM and child marriage: donate by 18 July and your gift will be doubled

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Chilcot report: UNISON statement

Joint statement from general secretary Dave Prentis and president Eric Roberts

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We may not be in Europe, but the threat of TTIP remains

UNISON will continue the fight to exclude public services from secret trade agreements

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Voices for Palestine won’t be silenced

Conference hears that the boycott and disvestment campaign is working well

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PSI general secretary: ‘We must stop the race to the bottom’

Rosa Pavanelli tells delegates that “we must take democracy very seriously,” as she outlines global threat by multinational corporations

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‘We can fight together for a more social Europe’

EPSU general secretary tells local government conference that Brexit would not ‘cure what is wrong in the EU, in the UK or elsewhere’

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Union backs 18 June convoy in solidarity with refugees

Union calls on members to take part in or donate goods to convoy travelling to refugee camp in Calais

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UNISON urges Colombia to protect activists from paramilitaries

More than 500 Colombian trade unionists and human rights campaigners murdered in the past five years as threat increases

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Rhondda Cynon Taf becomes latest council to condemn TTIP

UNISON congratulates south Wales council on adopting motion condemning secretary trade deal

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“My employer ‘gave’ me to someone else”

It was so big that he had a helicopter that he flew sometimes to remote parts of the farm. I was forced to be a shepherd there, to do animal husbandry. "I lived out in the desert, in a shed with a […]

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UNISON branch consultation on the EU referendum

UNISON wants to ensure that members’ voices are heard in this important debate. We are setting up a […]

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Remembering the Holocaust

"There is no place in a civilised society for practices that are designed to create fear and hatred." UNISON activists can show their support […]

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