UNISON has welcomed the decision by university employers to enter negotiations to resolve disruptive strike action currently affecting 150 universities. UNISON and the four other higher education unions (UCU, EIS,... read more →
Environment Agency workers across the country walked out yesterday, in their second day of strike action over pay this year. UNISON’s head of environment, Donna Rowe-Merriman, said: “EA members will... read more →
The first National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of 2023 heard a long list of all the industrial action that members are currently taking part in, across the UK. “It’s been... read more →
If the government has no intention of resolving the NHS dispute, the prime minister must come clean and admit to the public that many more months of disruption are on... read more →
Higher education staff are walking out over the coming days in a third wave of strikes over inadequate pay, says UNISON today (Thursday). Administrators, cleaners, library, security and catering workers... read more →
Thousands of Environment Agency employees begin to ramp up their dispute over pay today (Tuesday) as they begin a further period of industrial action, including a 12-hour strike, says UNISON.... read more →
Labour’s shadow minister for higher education Matt Western has accused government ministers of “collective amnesia” regarding the work of the “dedicated, compassionate people working in Britain’s universities.” Mr Western was... read more →
The UK is currently experiencing a wave of industrial action as workers struggle with rising inflation and wages that are not keeping track. And the Westminster government is refusing to... read more →
An escalation in our industrial action is about to cause more headaches for the Westminster government – an administration that’s already buckling under the pressure. Working people are standing up... read more →
Commenting on the pay offer today (Friday) from the Welsh government offering NHS workers an additional 3% this year, UNISON head of health Sara Gorton said: “This ramps up the pressure... read more →