The government have announced a £600 million grant to local authorities to fund to ensure that care workers who are off sick due to COVID-19 receive their normal wages. UNISON is working with local authorities and social care providers to ensure this fund is fully used. You can get involved in the campaign and make sure […]
Past Campaigns
UNISON has outlined a basic standard of worker safety that we would like to see all care providers adopting, as a minimum, during the COVID-19 pandemic.
UNISON has sought legal advice in terms of potential claims of discrimination arising from disability.
Our legal advice states that requiring a disabled worker who would ordinarily be capable of working to stay at home on reduced pay (because they are shielding on government advice) could amount to unfavourable treatment.
UNISON Young Members have developed five key employer pledges that we believe will make a real difference to our quality of life.
Mitie is the private company that Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust contract to provide a number of essential services within its hospitals. Mitie employees are a vital part of the hospital team. They include cleaners, porters, catering staff, ward hosts, security staff, laundry staff, switchboard operators, the waste team and others. They work closely alongside their […]
Porters at the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust have notified the Trust that they are taking further action from 6pm on Friday 3rd November until 6am on Monday 6th November 2017. Alan Doyle & Greg Ticehurst are the UNISON Representatives from the department and explain the issue below: “We are in dispute because […]
If you work or have worked for Discovery in Somerset, you could be entitled to a share of the financial settlement UNISON secured for members in September 2019.
Millennials: Avocados, flat whites and Instagram – right? Not quite. The hipster characterisation masks a much starker reality for the houseless generation. Most young workers are contending with low wages, insecure jobs and no voice at work. This is why UNISON has voted to make 2019 the year of young workers.
UNISON is asking Environment Agency staff whether they would be prepared take industrial action to try to win a better wage rise than the 1.3% that’s been imposed on them. Since 2010 staff have faced a 20% real-terms pay cut. UNISON says staff working for the agency are understandably angry, especially as the increase is way […]
♡ unions week is a national event organised by the TUC that many of you will have taken part in over the past three years and it’s back for 2019!
Save Somerset’s much-valued learning disability service from a cuts package that will hit standards of care
Care workers in residential and extra care employed by Sirona across Bath & North East Somerset are taking further action to protect their pay! Care staff have been told by Sirona management to accept a thirty minute “unpaid break” into most shifts. Most of the workers earn just above the minimum wage and can’t afford […]
It’s time public sector workers got a pay rise. Since 2010, dedicated staff have endured a pay freeze, and then a 1% cap. We’re calling on the government to Pay Up Now for the South West! Public sector salaries haven’t even nearly kept up with the cost of living, putting the squeeze on family budgets […]
NHS staff are proud to be part of one team working for an organisations with a common purpose. But NHS subsidiary companies threaten to divide the health service into little boxes. UNISON is campaigning to keep our health service united. What are NHS subsidiary companies? “Subcos” as they are sometimes called, are independent organisations that […]
Meeting the challenge of the STPs so staff and patients get the funding and voice they deserve