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Derby City branch organise ‘flood food bank’

UNISON’s Derby City branch have launched a food bank for local families impacted by Storm Babet. The heavy rainfall caused flooding across the East Midlands, including Derby, where fourteen families lost everything when their houses were submerged by the rising water. The city council said record-breaking water levels were seen in the River Derwent, which […]

Article, News on the UNISON East Midlands site.

Low-earning school support staff are paying for pupils’ food, skipping meals and taking on multiple jobs to survive

Cash-strapped school support staff are using their own money to help pupils and their families cope with the cost-of-living crisis, says UNISON today (Friday). A ​UK-wide union survey of more than 6,000 school workers reveals staff – including teaching assistants, catering and cleaning workers, librarians and sports coaches – are buying food for hungry pupils, and contributing towards the cost of […]

News on the UNISON South West site.

UNISON East Midlands launches #OneExtraItem campaign

UNISON East Midlands launches #OneExtraItem campaign to support working families being plunged into poverty. As more low paid workers are forced to rely on food banks just to make it through the week, UNISON East Midlands has pledged to support local charities, churches, and community organisations in making sure their shelves stay full. The trade […]

Article, News on the UNISON East Midlands site.

Hampshire Health branch, supporting members & supporting communities

We hear from Rachel Long, Welfare Officer at Hampshire Health branch, on how the branch works to support low paid UNISON members and why a pay rise for all NHS staff is so important

Article on the UNISON South East site.

Blog: Five weeks is too long

That’s a national disgrace. In the 12 months to 31 March 2018 the Trussell Trust’s foodbank network distributed 1,332,952 three day emergency […]

General Secretary's blog, News on the UNISON National site.

UNISON supports food bank collection at Solent University

To help underline the increase with in-work poverty, UNISON at Solent University organised a food bank collection as part of the Grovember recruitment drive. The goal was simple – to do a good thing and provide help to those who need it whilst underlining that so many of those who were supported by food banks […]

Article on the UNISON South East site.

Hampshire Health branch giving back to the community

With a recent UNISON survey showing that more than one in three NHS workers having to turn to friends or family for financial support within the previous year, it even […]

Article on the UNISON South East site.

General election 2017: pay and the cost of living

With just a few days until the election, UNISON looks at what the main parties have to say on two of the issues most important to our members

Behind the headlines, Magazine on the Magazine site.

A run on the bank

The rise of food banks are the most visible face of the poverty crisis affecting the UK in 2017 – they’re the country’s new emergency service. We spent a few days at one to find out more

Article, News on the UNISON National site.

Support your local food bank this Christmas

As Britain succumbs to a poverty crisis, food banks are calling on people’s support to help those less fortunate, including children, who are facing hunger. Between April and September this year the Trussell Trust distributed more than 500,000 emergency food parcels to people in crisis –  over 188,500 of them to children. That means that for the […]

Article on the UNISON South East site.

Food banks hope to give Britain’s ‘hidden poor’ a festive Christmas

“A lady came to the food bank and asked me if we were going to be open just before Christmas. When I said no, she said, ‘Oh well, that’s bread and sardines for Christmas dinner […]

Magazine, moving on the UNISON National site.

Food banks hope to give Britain’s ‘hidden poor’ a festive Christmas

As Britain succumbs to a poverty crisis, food banks are calling on people’s support to help those less fortunate, including children, who are facing hunger

Behind the headlines, Magazine on the Magazine site.

‘What kind of world have we created?’

While his appeal is lost in a bureaucratic black hole, his efforts to secure Job Seekers’ Allowance lead him to despair, “a sick man looking for a non-existent […]

Article, Magazine on the UNISON National site.