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Members asked to sign Lord Freud petition

UNISON is calling on all disabled members, fellow members, families and friends to sign the Unions Together petition calling for the resignation of Welfare Minister Lord Freud

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National minimum wage goes up

The new hourly minimum rates that every employee must be legally paid from today are: £6.50 for workers aged 21 and […]

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Finding flexibility for parents of disabled children

Are you or one of your colleagues a parent of a disabled child? Take five minutes to do the Working Families survey to highlight barriers to finding work

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Speak out on 18 October

Dave Prentis issues rallying call to make October demo the the biggest this country has ever seen

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999 call for the NHS

As NHS supporters march from Jarrow to London from 16 August, UNISON is urging members to back them

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Care UK members set for new strike

UNISON members at Care UK in Doncaster will begin new strike action tomorrow for two weeks, after the company refused to even discuss a wage rise this year

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UNISON to launch public services manifesto

With less than a year to go to the general election, UNISON is launching its manifesto for public services

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Taking the fair pay fight onto the streets

UNISON has hailed the local government strike as an overwhelming success, with more than one million public service workers on picket lines and at rallies in protest over their pay offer

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How you can help local government members

Council and school workers on NJC pay terms in England, Wales and Northern Ireland will strike on 10 July – and you can support them

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Conference says we shall overcome politics of hate

UNISON conference says we shall overcome racism and the divisive and destructive politics of hate

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Delegates highlight misuse of attendance management

National delegates conference warned that attendance management is a tool that can be used by employers to discriminate against disabled members

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Prentis tells UNISON that this autumn is the time to make a stand

Dave Prentis drew a line in the sand this afternoon, when he addressed the UNISON national delegate conference in Brighton saying that this autumn, we would make a stand

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EPSU leader spells out the Europe we want

EPSU general secretary Jan Willem Goudriaan’s message to UNISON’s local government conference was that we could change Europe for the betterment of the majority of its people

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Local government delegates urged to get the vote out

UNISON’s local government conference kicked off in Brighton this morning, with a rallying call to activists to win a big turnout in the current ballot on pay

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Britain needs a pay rise national demonstration – 18 October

Further details have been released by the TUC for anyone wanting to attend the national demonstration – Britain needs a pay rise – on 18 October in London

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