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Securing fair pay for hard-working members is UNISON’s top priority, as general secretary urges members to make sure their voices are heard

UNISON is asking for the government to provide a decent pay rise to all NHS staff. We’re pushing for a £2000 pay increase for all employees, regardless of their role. But there’s another aspect to pay that easy to overlook – pensions. Although you pay a percentage of your earnings into the scheme and this […]

When local government employers met earlier this week to issue their revised pay offer of 1.75% – an increase of 0.25% that UNISON regards as ‘insignificant’ – they did so against a backdrop of growing discontent over a proposed increase that fails to reflect the hard work and sacrifices made by council and school workers […]

The government has failed to honour its own ‘levelling up’ promises with the disappointing 3% pay rise for NHS workers in England. The award announced last week doesn’t meet the real living wage of £9.50 per hour for the lowest paid health service workers and widens the gap between those at the top and bottom […]

Negotiations with the Agency over 2021 have been conducted by the 4 recognised trade unions, UNISON, Prospect, GMB and Unite and we are now balloting you on whether you want to accept the offer that has been made. The Agency offer this year is delivering the pay freeze that the UK Government has announced for […]

Just as NHS staff thought ministers were at last to announce the pay rise they’ve more than earned, hopes have been cruelly dashed

UNISON condemns the vile online racism towards the England football team

UNISON is calling for a 10% pay rise for all local government workers, as financial recognition for their commitment to public service

Porters, domestics, security and help desk workers at Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust are missing out on a pay increase that was due in April. Mitie, who employs the staff, claims to be a Real Living Wage employer, and yet has failed to deliver on the promise of an annual pay increase in line with the […]

There’s a lot to keep us active during this second pandemic International Workers’ Day, says Tim Roberts

Paying health staff is an investment, not a cost

Tim Roberts explains why UNISON will keep talking about – and acting on – poor pay in our public services

Paying staff properly is a vital part of building the NHS for the future, says UNISON as it calls on the public to protest ​this evening about the government’s “pitiful” wage offer. Plans to recruit more staff are not enough to protect the health system and will only have an effect if experienced staff are […]

The biggest cost for all of us will be if the government fails to invest in the NHS workforce

The public will be horrified. NHS staff will think it’s some kind of joke