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Members across NJC unions vote to accept pay offer – the highest in a decade

Council staff will strike on 18 and 19 October after being offered a pay increase of just 1.3% in 2022

UNISON lawyers, organisers and activists give advice on how to fight the aggressive employment practice that’s on the rise

Hard-up Colchester Council staff should get the same pay rise as everyone else in local government, trade union UNISON says today. The call comes after UNISON members in schools and councils on nationally agreed NJC conditions voted to accept a flat-rate £1,925 backdated to April. But Colchester negotiates pay locally meaning refuse workers, those running […]

As a rehabilitation worker, his service users are referred to him, often from the NHS or the voluntary sector, having just been registered as partially sighted or blind. “We go […]

UNISON is consulting with its members working in Local Government on their latest pay offer.

In response to the government’s announcement that Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and their cities will be united under an elected mayor, UNISON East Midlands are concerned that the region has been short changed. The £1.14bn deal over 30 years, or £38m per year, amounts to £516 per head for the 2.207m residents living within in the combined […]

Thousands of local government workers overwhelmingly rejected the employers’ 2% offer

The Conservative group on Derby City Council last night (Wednesday 20 July) abstained on a vote that supported a ‘reasonable’ pay rise for council and school workers, despite staff working on the frontline throughout the pandemic. The motion brought by the Labour group and backed by UNISON, asked that Derby City Council support a real […]

The offer, worth around 9%, comes alongside a commitment to a new collective agreement

Conservative led North Northamptonshire Council has voted to give its councillors an inflation busting 11 per cent pay rise whilst council staff are still waiting to hear about their salary increase, rumoured to be around 2%. Council leader Jason Smithers will now receive an annual allowance of £42,990 – an increase of 6.5 percent for […]

Local government delegates debate motions on social care and the importance of bringing the entire sector back in-house

Local government conference passes motions on private contractors’ pay, reasonable adjustments and sexual harassment

Award winners named before local government delegates get back down to the debates

Conference hears of successful insourcing campaigns – and agrees to learn new ways of getting messages out to members and the public