‘Your days are numbered,’ Dave Prentis tells Tories in Durham speech

‘There is an alternative‘ says general secretary as he lambasts austerity and calls for properly funded public services

2,500 sign Wolverhampton care home petition

Petition launched by UNISON as homes are threatened with closure

George Osborne wants to know how to ‘get more for less’

The Chancellor wants to find more ways to cut public services

UNISON to launch public services manifesto

With less than a year to go to the general election, UNISON is launching its manifesto for public services

EPSU leader spells out the Europe we want

EPSU general secretary Jan Willem Goudriaan’s message to UNISON’s local government conference was that we could change Europe for the betterment of the majority of its people

UNISON launches Wales-wide mental health awareness campaign

UNISON is launching a Wales-wide mental health awareness campaign to raise awareness of mental health illness in the workplace and how to access support

UNISON Scotland highlights libraries threat

On the eve of National Libraries Day, UNISON Scotland warns of the increasing threat to the service

Conference condemns the ‘demonisation of disabled people’

Disabled members’ conference calls for disability hate crime to be a specific criminal offence and calls for urgent action to tackle it

‘We’ve gone back to the dark ages’

Shadow minister for disabled people Kate Green addresses UNISON’s disabled members conference

UNISON challenges ongoing discrimination against disabled people at work

Disabled members at conference in Manchester hear that capability is used as a weapon against disabled members

UNISON president condemns ‘Victorian’ Britain with ‘food banks and soup kitchens’

Tory austerity policies are leading to a Victorian Britain, disabled members conference hears

‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times’

UNISON disabled members condemn government’s return to Dickensian hard times

9/10 lose sleep over money and job worries

UNISON releases results of poll asking public service workers What Keeps you Awake?

Time to stop talking in conferences

Carolan tells delegates to make sure they take the message out beyond the conference hall to voters

UNISON urges members to lobby their MPs over new ‘gagging law’

New law threatens to gag charities, NGOs, blogs, think-tanks, trade unions and other campaigning organisations by severely restricting how much money they can spend on political campaigning in the year running up to a general election