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Next steps for safety reps – TUC Stage 2 course

You will be asked to find out information from your Branch and employer throughout the duration of the course.    […]

Event on the UNISON National site.

TUC Stepping Up – the advanced course for union reps

Advanced course for union reps who have already completed the TUC Stage 1 union rep course or its equivalent

Event on the UNISON National site.

UNISON backs TUC young workers’ housing charter

UNISON is backing the TUC’s housing charter for young people in the private rented sector.

Article on the UNISON National site.

Join us in Manchester

Because the Tories know that it is trade unions who represent and speak up for the hardworking public service workers who provide the vital public services which our communities […]

General Secretary's blog on the UNISON National site.

The right to strike is under threat. Here’s a quick video explaining why…

In a nutshell, the government’s Trade Union Bill would mean: employers were able to use agency temps to replace striking workers restrictions on pickets and protests that threaten freedom of speech attacks on union reps in the public sector more unnecessary red tape, tying up unions. Taken together, these will undermine our basic right to […]

Article, News on the UNISON Eastern site.

Number of families with problem debt up by more than a quarter since 2012, new report reveals

The number of households with problem debt has increased by 700,000 (28 per cent) since 2012, according to new TUC and UNISON-commissioned research published today (Tuesday).   The report, Britain in the Red, shows that in 2014 one in eight households (3.2 million) were over-indebted compared to one in ten (2.5 million) in 2012.   […]

News, Press release on the UNISON National site.

It is our ‘humanitarian and moral duty’ to act over refugee crisis

"Desperate refugees fleeing conflicts have been dying in Europe’s pitiless seas for years. The world has turned its face away - and our tabloid papers and our politicians should hang […]

Article, News on the UNISON National site.

Liz Snape is the next TUC president

She will serve in the role for a year, until the 148th Congress in Brighton in 2016. Ms Snape was born and grew up in Liverpool […]

News on the UNISON National site.

Let’s show how we ♡ UNISON

The main aims for the week are: hold an event for your members show non-members the benefits of being in a […]

Article, News on the UNISON National site.

UNISON Scotland joins day of action against Trade Union Bill

UNISON Scotland pledged “strong and visible support” for the action. And among the options it has proposed to its branches are to: use facility time to […]

Article, News on the UNISON National site.

UNISON welcomes government change of heart over check-off

Dave Prentis comments on the announcement in the Lords that the government is no longer to stop unions from collecting members’ subs via their pay packets

News, Press release on the UNISON National site.

Brexit top of UNISON agenda for TUC

"The need for stability and reassurance has never been greater, and now we must ensure that neither our public […]

Article on the UNISON National site.

Wages standstill sees over a million low-income families struggle with extreme debt, says TUC

The report, Britain in the Red, finds that total unsecured debt (which excludes mortgages) for UK households rose by £48bn between 2012 and 2015 to reach £353bn. The report looks at how […]

News, Press release on the UNISON National site.

UNISON prepares to make its mark at TUC Congress

The union has put forward three motions dealing to address issues faced by workers and the economy after the 23 June vote […]

Article, News on the UNISON National site.

We can’t turn the clock back on Brexit, but let’s use the negotiations to build a better future, says UNISON’s Dave Prentis

A rising and ugly tide of racism, frightening anti-foreigner, anti-immigrant sentiment once consigned to the sewer of the far right, now unleashed into […]

News, Press release on the UNISON National site.