Unions mobilise for an autumn of pay protests

Members across local government, health and education say ‘enough is enough’

Branches urged to follow the momentum for a living wage

Yorkshire & Humberside campaign revealing an ‘open door’ for living wage claims

Academy school support staff to vote on strike

UNISON members in academy schools are voting on strike action after a derisory 1% pay offer meant that they were being expected to take another pay cut this year

Pay protests hit towns across the country

‘Locked out’ local government and school workers protest against low pay and call for a decent pay offer

Time to lobby Scottish councillors on pay

Local government members in Scotland are being urged to lobby councillors across the country in the run-up to their industrial action ballot

Northern Ireland Ambulance Service branch ‘no confidence’ in NIAS board

At a meeting of the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service branch of UNISON on 6 August 2014 a vote of “No confidence” was taken in the NIAS Trust Board, Chief Executive Officer and Directorship.

MP backs UNISON’s ethical care charter

‘Homecare staff look after our parents, our brothers and sisters, our friends’ says David Crausby as he signs petition urging Bolton council to sign charter

Speak out on 18 October

Dave Prentis issues rallying call to make October demo the the biggest this country has ever seen

UNISON to organise ballot in academy schools

UNISON is set to ballot members working in academy schools in September on industrial action over pay, so that they could join the next industrial action in October

Scottish council workers to vote on action over pay

Local authority members in Scotland to be balloted in September on programme of industrial action

Pembrokeshire county members balloted on confidence in senior council officer

UNISON members in Pembrokeshire county council are to be balloted on their confidence in the chief executive at the council following the confirmation that payments made to the senior officer are to be reinvestigated

Keep local government pay on the agenda this summer

Next steps in the campaign for fair pay in local government: day of protest, political lobbying and inddustrial action

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

UNISON calls for urgent meeting with Welsh LGA

UNISON Cymru/Wales has written to the Welsh Local Government Association to express concern over its attitude to the J10 strike and to call for an urgent meeting to discuss the matter

Taking the fair pay fight onto the streets

UNISON has hailed the local government strike as an overwhelming success, with more than one million public service workers on picket lines and at rallies in protest over their pay offer