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Each year, UNISON’s Local Service Champions Awards celebrate the extraordinary work of our local government members. Meet this year’s champion and runner-up

Date

10 October 2022 11:00am–2:00pm

The UNISON anti-privatisation training is for UNISON local government activists to understand the problem of privatisation and learn about successful campaigns elsewhere.

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

General secretary warns that we’ll all lose if public services are decimated

General secretary Christina McAnea tells UNISON’s local government conference to get their branches ‘strike ready’ and ensure a big turnout at the TUC demo on 18 June

Staff at Thanet District Council are outraged after reports emerged that their departing chief executive will receive a severance payment almost equal to the total pay rise for all council staff this year