UNISON’s national executive council (NEC) met today and heard reports on the preparations for strike action, balloting and re-balloting across the union, as the third Conservative prime minister of the... read more →
Commenting on new figures published today (Thursday) that show NHS vacancies across England have reached a record high and waits for patients arriving at hospital by ambulance are increasing, UNISON... read more →
UNISON has welcomed the announcement from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) that further education institutions are to be reclassified as public sector rather than private. Among other ramifications, this... read more →
UNISON’s second annual young members’ conference opened this morning in Bournemouth with a speech from assistant general secretary, Jon Richards. Welcoming delegates, he began by talking about the political state... read more →
Sunday 4 December 2022 For immediate release Start pay talks to stop NHS strikes this winter says UNISON Commenting on comments made by Conservative Party chairman Nadhim Zahawi earlier today (Sunday), UNISON... read more →
Young members’ conference continued to debate motions on Saturday in Bournemouth. One key theme running through the day was the union’s recruitment and organising work around young members. This started... read more →
We urgently need a new UK law to hold companies and the public sector to account when they fail to prevent human rights abuses and environmental harms in their global... read more →
On Saturday afternoon at young members’ conference in Bournemouth, Daniella Vega Sotelo, a member of the peasant farmer’s union FENSUAGRO, spoke to delegates via video link from Colombia. She spoke... read more →
Ambulance crews working for five services in England – London, Yorkshire, the North West, North East and South West – are to go on strike over pay and staffing on... read more →
UNISON members working in the NHS in Northern Ireland will be taking strike action on Monday 12 December in the ongoing battle for a pay rise. Health workers in Northern... read more →