Failure to deliver a meaningful pay rise will make recruitment and retention problems worse
NJC pay
A rise of £3,000 is needed at all pay points
Staff to be consulted over employers’ pay proposal
UNISON will decide next steps over NJC pay
Claim calls for a wage rise of £3,000 or 10%, whichever is higher

Local government conference opens in Liverpool with a refusal ‘to be made poorer by this government’

I know it’s a difficult decision to vote to take action and be prepared to lose a day’s pay, but we’ve won through strike action before, and I have every confidence we can do it again

Pam Howard, the chair of UNISON’s schools committee, urges the union’s 250,000 school support staff to have their say in the NJC strike ballot

UNISON’s local government and schools members will soon be voting on whether to accept the employers’ latest below-inflation pay rise
Many workers at United Learning chain losing out on wages

Protecting and increasing pay is vital to UNISON. We organise, we act, we win. But the work never stops. Get involved and let’s win together.
Preparations for ballot now under way
Significant pay award is vital after years of cuts and restraint

