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Campaigners in Coventry to demonstrate against £60m cuts to services

The board of the trust announced the decision on Friday. It reverses the fire and rehire of staff that took place back in March 2021. UNISON has been in dispute with the trust […]

West Midlands members continue their long-running action over contracts

I’m proud of the job people who work in the health service do 24 hours a day, seven days a week: UNISON will always fight their corner against this government – by any means possible

Commenting on the news that 700 British Gas jobs are to go in the West Midlands, with the closure of the Oldbury service/call centre near Birmingham, UNISON national energy officer Matt Lay said: “This is terrible news for the company’s Birmingham-based employees, who will be devastated at the prospect of losing their jobs. British Gas […]

UNISON’s petition calling on the government to scrap the public sector pay cap and give NHS, council, police and schools staff a decent pay rise will be debated today (Monday) in Parliament. Ahead of the debate, UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis has written to the Prime Minister to ask her why the Budget failed to […]

UNISON members set to take to the picket lines for a sixth time in continued fight against their employer’s fire and rehire tactics

Bringing the 111 and 999 services together should lead to “real improvements” for both patients and staff

Members in UNISON and Unite had voted 100% to take industrial action before council regraded them

Union hosts community sporting event to help build relationships across the community and raise UNISON’s profile

Customers are being helped to use the computerised system for borrowing and returning books, while a small room is being prepared for a local bereavement group to meet. The team know […]

UNISON calls for NJC employers to rethink and come forward with a pay offer which ‘begins to tackle the hardship facing all of our members’ in local government and schools (England, Wales and Northern Ireland)

UNISON reacts angrily to the announcement that a further 6,000 jobs will be cut at Birmingham City Council over the next four years

“Voting for strike action is never an easy decision – even more so for NHS workers who spend their lives caring […]

UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis has stressed that members have turned out in force for the strike today and that the massive show of solidarity from the members and the public alike shows that 1% is just not enough