Blog: This cynical, divisive kick in the teeth
Chancellor’s pay freeze for most public service workers mocks the government’s commitment to ‘levelling up’ with old-style Thatcherism
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Category: Covid-19
School catering staff win in the Wirral after UNISON pressure
Private company abandons plan to make staff redundant and will now access the government furlough scheme
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Covid contracts need proper scrutiny to end gravy train
Ministers must be held to account after spending billions of pounds of public money
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Politics can‘t interfere in the approval of PPE, warns UNISON
Political pressure to approve substandard PPE does not bode well for HSE independence once the UK finally leaves the safety of the EU, says the union
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Safety in libraries must be a priority
'Our library workers need the certainty that will come with their workplaces being closed for this next lockdown phase'
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Our COVID response fund – helping members through the pandemic
UNISON’s There for You charity is reopening the COVID-19 response fund to help members who are struggling as a direct result of coronavirus
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Blog: Still by your side during the second wave
There is no rest for me or anyone in UNISON while our members continue to do all they can to fight this pandemic and keep our communities going
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UNISON organiser helps families find half-term meals
Area organiser Jack Horwood set up Help Out When School’s Out, an online search tool connecting families to local businesses providing half-term meals
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Society must do more to tackle structural racism, says UNISON
Urgent action needed to protect Black communities from second wave
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Teaching assistants covering twice as many lessons in the pandemic
UNISON survey reveals huge rise in numbers doing higher-grade work as teachers fall ill or fail to get tests
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