Higher education delegates in Newcastle voted yesterday to build on the success of UNISON’s Year of Disabled Workers 2022, and continue to work to improve the experience of disabled members.... read more →
UNISON assistant general secretary Jon Richards opened the national higher education conference yesterday with a damning critique of the government’s approach towards university education, and of ministers who are out... read more →
UNISON’s higher education activists met in Newcastle yesterday, for their first in-person conference since the onset of the pandemic. With workers experiencing “the worst cost of living crisis in 30... read more →
Around 670 staff at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust will be brought back in-house on 1 April this year. Staff at two hospital sites, Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen, who... read more →
Staff at the Care Quality Commission (CQC) have begun voting for industrial action over pay, say unions today (Friday). Five unions – UNISON, PCS, Prospect, Royal College of Nursing (RCN) and Unite – are balloting workers who... read more →
Tuesday marked the 70 year anniversary of the North Sea Flood when over 300 people lost their lives across Scotland and England’s east coast in 1953 when a storm surge... read more →
A day of action to tackle the housing crisis in the UK is taking place on Saturday 11 February and UNISON members are being encouraged to take part. The Homes... read more →
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 →