12 Days of Organising – Day 2
WATCH OUR NEW TV ADVERT AND SHARE IT WITH YOUR FRIENDS UNISON’s new TV advert is going out this week on ITV in the North West, and various digital terrestrial and cable channels. It focuses on the essential cover we…
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Bedroom Tax Campaign
HELP TO SPREAD THE WORD Today we are launching a major campaign to highlight the incompetent, unfair and out of touch ‘bedroom tax’ David Cameron’s Government will introduce in April. I need you to share the campaign with your friends,…
UNISON Manchester supports Hope not Hate
This weekend we are being offered two very different visions of Manchester. One offers HOPE, another hate. Our Manchester is a city of vibrancy, tolerance and friendship. The other is being presented by the English Defence League and is a…
Pay and the case for an improved offer
Our UNISON colleague activists on the UNISON Active blog have put up a new article today, which analyses the latest NJC Pay Offer and makes a strong case for improving the one proposed. We encourage you all to read this…
NJC Pay Offer 2013 : Responding to the NJC Employers Offer
NORTH WEST POSITION IS TO REJECT NATIONAL PAY OFFER Dear Colleague As reported on the UNISON website here and in other media the NJC Employers have now put forward two “options” for an NJC pay offer this year to the…
Winter Fuel Grant
WORRIED ABOUT PAYING YOUR FUEL BILL? With rising costs and another cold winter many members are worried about how they’re going to pay this year’s winter fuel bills. Help is on hand ‘There for you’ has set up a limited…
Welfare – myths and reality
Recent research by the TUC has found widespread ignorance about spending on welfare, the reality of unemployment, the generosity of benefits and the level of fraud. People least able to give accurate answers about benefits are the most likely to…
Don’t let them trade our rights for cash
Dear Friend Next week, together with union activists, I’ll be delivering a huge letter right to the door of Number 10 Downing street, saying ‘our rights at work are not for sale’. This Tory government are forcing through their plan…
5 Good Reasons to Hate Universal Credit
With neighbouring authorities already acting as “Pathfinders” planning to run pilot schemes, Universal Credit is already hitting our region. The scheme is currently scheduled to go live for new claimants nationally from October 2013. UNISON is firmly opposed to these…
Time to break the Pay Freeze
In local government pay is in real spending power terms now at levels equivalent to the mid-90’s. Over 2/3rds of local government workers earn unless than £21,000 a year. Thousands of our members rely on in-work benefits and tax credits.…