As members will be only too aware, this Tory-led Coalition Government looks keen to make everyone, except the rich and the wealthy bankers who caused the financial crisis, pay for the financial mess this country is in. And one fund…
UNISON is really concerned at proposals in the Welfare Reform Bill to introduce a Universal Credit, including the current Housing Benefit. In particular, we are worried about the proposals for its implementation. This disquiet is shared by a range of…
UNISON General Secretary, Dave Prentis, today (28 July 2011) rounded on Government ministers for putting public sector pension talks in “jeopardy” by their “naïve tactics” and apparent lack of negotiating skills. And called on them to abandon the playground games…
On top of a pay freeze, rising inflation and the threat of redundancy, public sector workers now face a pensions raid. The Hutton Report is a Trojan horse to attack public sector pensions and make public sector workers pay the…
The NHS that we know and love is under threat. The government plans to massively shake-up the NHS, which has the potential to cause huge damage to patient care and waste vast sums of public money. The plans will turn…
It’s hard to believe, but this government wants to sell off parts of the NHS blood service. Many of us have family members who have benefited from the NHS blood donation and transplant service. And many of us are also…
The massive turn out in London on the 26 March for the TUC organised March for the Alternative demonstrated that huge numbers of people from across the UK have real concerns about the direction the ConDem government is taking us.…
The TUC March on Saturday 26th March was a huge success. 500,000 people, including 100,000’s of thousands of Unison members, joined the march to condemn the Government’s butchering of Britain. The numbers that attended were greater than any of the…
Are the cuts a necessary response to an economic crisis? Is there a crisis, and if so what is it? Is there an alternative approach? The answers to these questions are “No”; “Not Really, There’s A Crisis of Capital –…
You may have seen some of the media coverage today of the Hutton report into public sector pensions. I have been interviewed on national BBC TV, Channel 4, ITV, the Today programme, 5 Live, many regional radio stations and by…