Search News and Blogs, Campaigns tagged local government

Four more local authorities will be affected in second wave of action over pay

Care workers represented by UNISON today (Monday) took to the streets of Tonypandy to campaign against a threat to privatise services.

Hundreds of vulnerable people in Rhondda Cynon Taf could soon see the quality of care they receive compromised, says UNISON.

Cambridgeshire County UNISON has unfurled a new branch banner for the first time in a demonstration outside the council offices. Emblazoned with the word “Solidarity,” it’s fitting that the banner’s first outing was at a Fire Brigades Union rally, with the branch showing UNISON’s support for a campaign against the dangerous watering down of safety […]

It includes championing a racially diverse workforce, having a clear programme of anti-racist initiatives and providing equality training for all […]

A formal notice has been issued to workers, informing them of plans to cut up to 750 full-time equivalent […]

And an ever-decreasing number of staff means the ones left are worn out. Yet council and school workers continue with their hard work to keep our communities together – supporting our most […]

This time, it took a different approach. “We were more or less told that we either had to conform to the new conditions and let the leave go, or we’d be fired and rehired on new contracts” […]

Industrial action in Huntingdonshire has been called off after the council agreed to implement the pay day UNISON settled last month. UNISON members were due to strike tomorrow, Friday 6 October. A joint release with the employer can be read on the Huntingdonshire District Council website. The background to the dispute can be read in […]

Leisure centres in Kirklees are at risk as the council looks to address its budget shortfall, UNISON is warning. The union has been told by Kirklees Active Leisure that it is planning to make 235 redundancies across five of the centres it runs on behalf of the council, as well as its head office. The […]

Councils across Yorkshire and Humberside have a hole in their finances exceeding £350m collectively for the coming financial year, making it extremely likely they will have to make huge cuts in essential services and jobs, says a report published by UNISON. The figures, based on financial information gathered from local authorities across Yorkshire and Humberside, […]

Councils across the Eastern region have a hole in their finances of £332m collectively for the coming financial year, making it extremely likely they will have to make huge cuts in essential services and jobs, says a report published today by UNISON. The figures, based on financial information gathered from local authorities across the region […]

UNISON East Midlands Regional Organiser Dave Ratchford said: “We are prepared work fully with the council to safeguard services and staff. “We […]

Workers from Kirklees Council will lobby their employer ahead of this afternoon’s cabinet meeting against potential closures of care homes and leisure centres, says UNISON today (Tuesday). Workers represented by UNISON will be gathering outside Huddersfield Town Hall at 2.30pm, ahead of the cabinet meeting at 3pm. The council is planning to cut 250 jobs […]

UNISON says the council has never polled staff vote before and is only doing so now in a bid to undermine collective bargaining. Council workers will take […]