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Nicky Sutton loves her job. But on £500 a month, she says, ‘The truth is, it’s just tough’

Many of them are on first-name terms with her. “We get every nationality you can think of, a wide range of students, and there are the businesses here as well. I speak […]

Over 100 top union activists convened at a pay summit at the UNISON Centre in London today (Thursday) to map out a cross-union strategy for dealing with the ongoing public sector pay freeze

As a result, more than half the respondents (55 per cent) are doing unpaid overtime every week. For three-quarters (76 per cent) this is up to five hours a week unpaid, while for a quarter (24 per […]

Plans to increase the country’s housing stock are welcome, but do nothing to tackle the problems for those on low incomes

UNISON condemns growing pay gap in higher education as new report shows that senior managers’ pay grew by 3% last year

UNISON regional secretary Glyn Hawker said: “Low-paid public sector workers are again looking at 1% pay rises that are tiny compared to headline-grabbing increases for senior staff in both the public and private sectors. The culture of rewarding those at the top while the wages of other staff are allowed to stagnate is unfair and […]

UNISON regional secretary Glyn Hawker said: “Low-paid nurses and teaching assistants are again looking at 1% pay rises that are tiny compared to headline-grabbing increases for senior staff in both the public and private sectors. The culture of rewarding those at the top while the wages of other staff are allowed to stagnate is unfair […]

An 8% increase for the chief executive but nothing for everyone else Suffolk County Council has awarded its chief executive a salary increase of £13,450, taking her salary to £170,000 a year. The decision was made to reflect her “hard work in serving the residents of Suffolk” according to a spokeperson quoted in the East Anglian Daily […]

National delegate conference gets underway with discussion on how to tackle the poverty affecting millions across the UK

UNISON reasserts the ‘ultimate goal’ for UK minimum wage policy, in its submission to the Low Pay Commission

They differ from the government's so-called 'national living wage', which is a rebranded minimum wage for over 25s. The announcements came at the start of Living […]

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

Workers can call this in confidence if they think they are not being paid the minimum wage or need advice […]

If the government wants to spend money on tackling low pay, there are better alternatives – like real legal enforcement of the minimum wage to penalise unscrupulous employers and introducing a living wage low-paid workers can actually live on, a legal minimum wage worthy of the name.