Aside from rarely kept resolutions, the new year is an opportunity to reconsider our priorities, plans and aims for the year ahead – both personally and professionally – and think about the state of...
Without a backbone of administrative and clerical workers to help take the strain, our vital local services will collapse
The article Public pay the price of job cuts first appeared on the UNISON...
Christmas turkey, pigs-in-blankets and meat stuffing could become health hazards under moves to scrap independent abattoir inspectors employed by the Food Standards Agency (FSA), says UNISON today...
Responding to a TUC analysis published today (Friday) that found emergency service workers have suffered real pay cuts of up to £3,300 since 2011, UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis said: “Every...
Whatever you’re doing this Christmas, have a happy one and a safe one. If you’re working this Christmas – thank you. And if not, I hope you get the rest you’ve all earned from a long year of...
The increase in the number of violent assaults against health service employees in England – up by over a fifth in the last five years – is completely unacceptable and requires urgent government...
Our thoughts today and throughout this Christmas period are with those who have lost loved ones, the injured and those - including Ver.di members - who will work to treat the injured and support...
General secretary Dave Prentis speaks at funeral, recalling Eric as 'a man who inspired happiness, loyalty, good memories and love'
The article Remembering our president and friend Eric Roberts...
The government should be using the growing surplus of centrally-collected business rates to ease the pressure on councils, not encouraging them to shift the care burden onto hard pressed local...
Responding to today’s (Thursday) announcement by the government on social care funding, UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis said: “Government cuts to council budgets helped cause the crisis in...