New minimum wage rates come into force across UK, including ‘national living wage’
New minimum wage rates come into force across UK, including ‘national living wage’
Yesterday (Thursday 1st June) the TUC launched its general election campaign calling on all parties to “give Britain a pay rise”. Frances O’Grady, TUC General Secretary was joined by Clare Williams, Regional Secretary in the South of the Region to highlight the impact of the Government’s policies of Austerity. As the TUC analysis shows, workers […]
It would also close the NHS spending gap … and ensure “staff are fairly paid”. Plaid Cymru says it would create […]
National delegate conference agrees to a raft of measures to push forward the campaign against the government’s pay cap and, with it, in-work poverty
Minimum hourly pay for workers must be increased substantially to reflect the rising cost of living, said UNISON today (Friday). The union is calling on the government to raise the current legal minimum from £7.50 an hour to the level of the real living wage (£8.45 an hour or £9.75 in London). It also wants […]
As part of our Pay Up Now! campaign calling for an end to the pay cap, members have been telling us their stories of living without enough money…
Midwives, healthcare assistants and hospital porters who belong to UNISON are joining their nursing colleagues demonstrating in Parliament Square today (Wednesday) over the government’s refusal to lift the pay cap. Commenting on the Royal College of Nursing’s protest UNISON head of health Sara Gorton said: “Faced with an exodus of staff across the NHS, ministers’ justification for […]
The living wage has risen to £8.75 an hour across the UK and £10.20 an hour in London
Commenting on the NHS Providers’ report, There For You: A Better Future for the NHS Workforce, published today (Tuesday), UNISON head of health Sara Gorton said: “This report hits the nail on the head. The NHS finds itself at the heart of a vicious circle. As demands on the health service grow, and pay continues to dive as prices soar, staff are understandably […]
Local government workers are the lowest paid in the public sector. This pay rise is affordable and long overdue.
Being able to feed their families, afford dental treatment, repair their cars or pay off debts are some of the things that health workers could afford if the government gave them a decent pay rise, according to a survey released today (Sunday) by UNISON. UNISON says the findings expose the financial hardship suffered by NHS […]
Suffragettes will lead Scottish demonstration in continuing struggle over grading system and equal pay
At least 200,000 care workers in the UK are only being paid for the time they spend caring for people, and not for when they are travelling between appointments
Around 8,000 school staff, nursery workers, care workers, caterers and cleaners – the majority of them UNISON members – will walk out on 23 and 24 October in the largest equal pay strike since the Equal Pay Act was passed
Equal pay victory ‘would be an inspiration to millions of other women fighting for better pay’.