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By Liz Kendall and Richard Watts Entrusting the care of a loved one to a paid professional can be a really difficult decision to make. We all want excellent standards from care staff because they help look after our families when we’re not…
Neil Findlay's campaign for the Scottish Labour leadership has received the backing of a second trade union today. Following a hustings event at the annual Scottish UNISON Labour Link forum this morning, the public sector worker union chose…
As the election approaches, Unison is continuing to work tirelessly in the marginals. For the past year we have been funding local organisers and winning support for Labour. Not for a party of business or a party of the middle, but for our…
Tomorrow local government workers will make up the majority of those taking part in the largest day of strike action the Coalition has faced. Thousands will be out in force protesting against the government’s punitive public sector pay…
Unison General Secretary Dave Prentis threw down the gauntlet to the Labour leadership on pay today, pushing the party to stop opposing pay increases for public sector workers. Prentis told delegates to the union's conference: "When we…
Today, against a backdrop of anger over pay, the destruction of our NHS and deep cuts to local government and other key services, UNISON's annual conference kicks off in Brighton. 2,000 public sector workers have travelled from across the…
First things first; the latest figures showing unemployment continuing to fall are clearly welcome news. However, there remain many reasons why the government’s sweeping optimism is misplaced. To start with, it is well-established that the…
A new report by New Economics Foundation for Unison is a stark reminder, if one were needed, that public sector pay will be central to the debate about the cost of living crisis over the coming months. As such, what the two Eds say next on…
Dave Prentis has been General Secretary of Britain's second largest union, Unison, for over twelve years, leading over 1.3 million members. In an exclusive interview with LabourList, he tells Mark Ferguson that it's highly unlikely that his…
What do Southend, Ramsgate, Grimsby and Blackpool have in common? Score a point if you say that they are all on the coast but actually real answer is that they're all fed up to the back teeth of austerity. Just days before the government's…
Yesterday, UNISON conference got a shock as 30 people burst in through the back doors wearing 1970’s wigs, disco glasses, and danced their way to the front of the hall. Flashmobbing may seem odd at a union conference, but this ‘mob’ had a…
Food-banks, zero-hours contracts, pay-day loan companies – when David Cameron talked a few years ago about ‘Broken Britain’, few could have imagined just how broken Britain would quickly become under the Conservatives. More and more…
