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Help illegally underpaid care workers

This Decent Jobs Week, UNISON is focusing attention on the 220,000 care workers who are illegally underpaid

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Vote yes to keep our political fund

"I must stress that a 'yes' vote is a vote for choice. "Members will not be obliged to contribute to the fund if they vote 'yes', but they will be […]

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National minimum wage goes up

  "The minimum wage is a vital safety net benefiting about one million workers a year," says UNISON head of policy […]

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Hands off universal benefits, say pensioners

UNISON supports National Pensioners Convention in campaign to stop cuts to universal benefits on Older People’s Day

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Speak out on 18 October

But 18 October is not just about specific groups of UNISON members, or even all UNISON members. After four years of austerity, everyone - and the economy - […]

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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

The action comes after a new ballot and is in support of a pay claim that calls for a minimum starting rate of £7.65, which is the national living wage outside London. The […]

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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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Solidarity across the sea

Unions around the world send solidarity messages to UNISON strikers

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Together we are strong

The union's health service group says: "Unfortunately our members in health know only too well of the struggles that our local government […]

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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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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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