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Housing is going to be a major issue at this year’s general election. One UNISON housing activist explains the sector, and why he and his colleagues are being brought back in-house

I haven’t paid my gas, electric or council tax in a year. “I care about young people’s education. It’s always been a big thing for me to see kids thrive, but this work […]

Housing workers in Bridgend are set to lose thousands of pounds from their pensions under plans by their employer, says their union UNISON today (Thursday).    Staff at the Valleys to Coast Housing Association have been told the organisation is looking to leave the local government pensions scheme (LGPS), which would have given employees a […]

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A report, Through the Roof: Housing and the cost of living crisis for public service workers, was then launched at the union’s national delegate conference in June. The survey found that […]

Moving the first motion, Yvonne Green told conference, “Public sector workers are worried about how they’ll pay their bills.” Tina Roach warned that “the threat of […]

A report commissioned by the union, based on a survey of more than 2,600 public service workers in the UK, shows housing costs have increased for more than three in five (63%). The […]

A day of action on 11 February will call on the Westminster government to fund a rent freeze and end evictions during the cost of living crisis

The work will find out more about the housing issues members are facing

On affordability, it finds that workers in some areas of the UK would need to earn over 12 times their salary to afford a home in which to […]

Our communities need public services and they need the people providing those services living close by

Right to Buy reforms could divert funding away from new council housing, says UNISON

UNISON has commissioned research into the housing issues facing workers across public services in the UK

London regional secretary Maggi Ferncombe said: “Public sector workers are the backbone of London, without whom our infrastructure would collapse. “The valued work […]

“It’s been hard. So hard. We’ve been counting each slice of bread we eat.”