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 →
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 →