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“Negotiations for April 2024 start now and council leaders will need to look seriously at how they’re going to make […]

Join us this evening for an online rally, as we build for action on pay in Scottish schools

We meet the winners of this year’s Local Service Champions Awards

Featuring Sandra Charles – UNISON South East deputy regional convenor

Government ministers should rethink their knee-jerk rejection of a trial into the four-day week at South Cambridgeshire Council and wait for the evidence, UNISON says today. Local government minister Lee Rowley has written to the council blocking an extension of the “experiment” into a reduced working week, according to media reports at the weekend. The […]

The union agreed to suspend further strikes for talks at conciliation service Acas. The school has now reduced the number of job losses to three […]

Southend school staff have fought off changes to holiday pay calculations that could have left them thousands of pounds a year worse off. Around 350 staff in community schools would have seen their pay drop by between £40 and £2,800 each year after Southend Council proposed changes to the formula for calculating holiday pay for […]

“The case for better pay is compelling and clear cut,” said Ms McAnea. “Staff vacancies are endemic […]

We need a party that is unashamedly for the working class,” said one delegate. According to UNISON research, councils across the UK are […]

A teaching assistant in Wales is urging colleagues to back UNISON’s strike vote to win an improved pay offer.

A Norwich librarian has gained national recognition for her exceptional work in delivering council services, UNISON has announced today. Jo Foster-Murdoch is one of two runners-up for the union’s local service champions awards, which celebrate the incredible difference council staff make to the lives of people in their area. Jo was chosen for the support […]

UNISON general secretary Christina McAnea is to visit Ipswich later this week as council and school support staff vote on whether to strike over pay. Christina McAnea will speak at a rally on Friday outside Suffolk County Council headquarters Endeavour House as local government workers call for a pay rise of 2% above inflation. Staff […]

UNISON sets the record straight after hundreds of workers’ holiday pay was miscalculated by Bolton council

Nearly 25,000 council and school support staff across the East of England will begin voting today on whether to strike over pay, says UNISON. The wage offer made by employers to local government staff is nowhere near what’s needed to meet rising prices during the cost of living crisis, says the union. UNISON had called […]

The ballot runs from 23 May to 4 July 2023 and covers tens of thousands of council and school workers in the region.