Thousands of Environment Agency employees belonging to UNISON and Prospect are to take strike action next week in the growing dispute about pay, say the unions today (Tuesday). Staff working... read more →
330 staff at Barnet council are due to be transferred back to council employment thanks to a decade-long campaign by UNISON. The affected workers are currently employed by outsourcing multinational... read more →
The NHS won’t be able to deliver the speedier response times and better care the government is promising until ministers try harder to end the growing dispute about pay and... read more →
Three local government unions, representing 1.4 million council and school employees in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, have today (Tuesday) submitted a pay claim that calls for an above-inflation wage... read more →
Commenting on the government’s proposals to boost NHS emergency care published today (Monday), UNISON head of health Sara Gorton said: “The government has at last acknowledged that there are deep problems in... read more →
Responding to the chancellor of the exchequer’s speech today (Friday) about driving UK economic growth, UNISON general secretary Christina McAnea said: “Jeremy Hunt’s grand vision for the future completely ignores... read more →
This is UNISON’s Year of Black Workers. UNISON has 185,000 Black members, most of whom work in health and local government services, with significant numbers working in social care and... read more →
The joint higher education unions met the employers this week – the final meeting in a series of three to negotiate on pay. The employers made a marginally improved offer... read more →
Every year UNISON marks Holocaust Memorial Day, which takes place on 27 January, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Nazi concentration and death camp. We remember the six... read more →
By Joshua Garfield and Izzy Lenga Hannah Arendt wrote about the “banality of evil,” as a countenance to the often ubiquitous belief that evil is exceptional; that uniquely evil deeds... read more →