NPS and CRC UNISON members have voted decisively for industrial action over the 0% pay offer for 2014. The ballot questions asked members: Are you prepared to take part in a strike? Are you prepared to take part in action short of a strike? UNISON asked members to vote yes to both questions. The results […]
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Neither did young member Victoria Haddow, so she did something about it After a few months on the Regional Young Members Committee I fancied a challenge! I’d heard that another young member, Stacey Davies from Cambridge had spoken at last year’s National Local Government Conference. That was something I couldn’t see myself doing, at least […]
Following the new Business Secretary Sajid Javid’s remarks over changes to strike laws that are to be included in the Queen’s Speech UNISON General Secretary Dave Prentis said: “The government has only been in power a matter of days and it has already come down on the side of exploitative bosses. “These unfair proposals will […]
Over 300 community support officer (PCSO) jobs in the east of England since 2010, leaving the public with little or no reassurance over safety, according to a UNISON report published today (Tuesday). The report – More trouble in the neighbourhood – shows there has been a 22 per cent reduction in the number of PCSOs […]
Napo, UNISON and GMB are opposed to the 600 job cuts announced by Sodexo in early April to deliver on the proposed operating model for the 6 CRCs. We are also extremely concerned at reports that none of the 6 Sodexo-owned CRCs is planning to honour the terms of the national enhanced voluntary redundancy scheme […]
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Trust has become the second NHS trust to withdraw from the Pathfinder project, just days after the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital Trust made the same decision. Following a unanimous vote at a branch meeting held on Monday 9th February, UNISON wrote to chief executive Michael Scott requesting that NSFT immediately withdraw […]