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‘NHS staff and their families need a pay award that stops the rot’

NHS staff and their families need a pay award that stops the rot and starts to restore some of the earnings that have been missed out on. “A decent […]

A motion calling for fair pay for public service workers will be debated by Gloucestershire councillors this Wednesday (13 September 2017). The motion would commit Gloucestershire council to support ending the public sector pay cap, which has meant average pay for public employees decreased in value by £3,875 since 2010. Labour councillors proposing the public […]

This afternoon at the TUC, I was proud to lead the debate on public sector pay. For UNISON’s 1.3 million members, and millions more like them, there is no more important issue.

Welsh MPs, Stephen Crabb, Guto Bebb and Alun Cairns, need to listen to public sector workers in their constituencies to end the damaging era of public sector job losses and squeezed services – and scrap the punishing pay cap for everyone once and for all, says UNISON today (Monday). To kick off the next stage of UNISON’s ‘Pay Up Now!’ campaign, UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis has […]

And UNISON won’t stop fighting for better pay until every public sector worker has had a proper pay rise. We […]

It may now be August and summer is well under way, but for our major pay campaign – Pay Up Now – it’s still full steam ahead. We’re fighting for all public sector workers to get the pay rise you need and deserve, so there won’t be any let up in the campaign until the […]

Staff in the NHS, schools, local government, the fire service and the police are struggling and need a pay rise that’s fair. Talk about how hard public service staff […]

Something has to change for the better.” Anonymous     “A single parent, I lost my relatively […]

Together, UNISON can win for all public sector workers, wherever you work, and deliver that long-overdue pay rise

Public sector pay is in the news – but what exactly are the numbers behind the pay cap?

Commenting on the latest inflation figures, UNISON assistant general secretary Christina McAnea said: “With inflation much higher than wages, nurses, teaching assistants and care staff are getting poorer. “The government’s harsh approach to public sector pay is completely out of step with the public mood. “Every day the pay cap stays, public sector employees are […]

But employers still haven’t gone ‘far enough’ says UNISON

We’re launching a new campaign, which we’ll be rolling out over the summer, to win all public sector workers the pay rise that you have for so long been denied.