Living Wage Week runs from Sunday 5 to Saturday 11 November this year. The new rate for the UK is £8.75 per hour, and for London it is £10.20 per hour. Living Wage Week takes place each year during the first week of November. It is a great opportunity to raise awareness of the work undertaken […]
UNISON welcomes increase to £8.45 (outside London) and £9.75 (London) an hour at start of Living Wage Week
Health and social care partnership commits to achieving fair work, better pay and improved quality of care on eve of Living Wage Week
They may be your neighbour. They might even be you. The national minimum wage was a proud achievement of the last Labour government, but while it set a legal floor and tackled […]
UNISON welcomes accreditation for latest Scottish council
UNISON South East has launched a campaign for a fair living wage for all workers. UNISON and its predecessors were among the first organisations in the country to support the Living Wage. There are over 1,300 employers accredited as living wage employers by the Living Wage Foundation. The Scotland government has established the living wage […]
Cleaners working at the University of South Wales today launch a campaign to tell their employer they deserve to be paid the ‘real’ Living Wage Foundation rate of £8.45 per hour. The cleaning staff are organised by UNISON and work at four sites on University of South Wales campuses in Newport, Treforest, Merthyr Tydfil and […]
Christmas Day is just a normal day for carers. Rather than sitting down to dinner with their family, these community superstars will be working to provide dignity and care to vulnerable people in their homes and residential centres. Download our campaign postcard as a pdf. To request a batch of campaign postcards contact your branch secretary. […]
UNISON has released an open letter to local authority leaders and chief executives across Wales calling for fairer funding in the care sector. The letter, detailed below, us supported by third sector employers including Catrefi Cymru, Gofal, Hafal, Mirus Wales, Perthyn, and Wales and West Housing Association. Dear Welsh Local Councils, Care providers are in a desperate […]
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
UNISON national minimum wage factsheet UNISON’s Andrew Anderson, who represents young members on the […]
The government has launched its campaign to raise awareness of the increase in national minimum wage rates – and the so-called national living wage – which will come into force on 1 April. The new rates are: 25 and over – £7.50 an hour; 21 to 24 – £7.05 an hour; 18 to 20 – […]
Since April 2016, the UNISON members, who work for a Hartlepool care provider, were paid a ‘sleep-in’ rate under that of the National Living Wage (£7.20 per hour) […]
Many UNISON service groups and regions have launched living wage campaigns, and included the living wage as a minimum […]
