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UNISON’s There for You charity reopens COVID-19 response fund to help members who are struggling as a direct result of coronavirus.
UNISON is celebrating Stars in our Schools on Friday 27 November 2020 and we need your help.
Porters, kitchen staff and cleaners at Wiltshire’s six community hospitals face an uncertain future as Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust seeks to outsource the services, UNISON says today (Friday).
Thousands of health staff across the South West – including nurses, paramedics, cleaners, domestics and porters – are writing to the region’s 55 MPs asking them to back UNISON’s call for NHS staff to get an early pay rise in time for Christmas. Staff employed in hospitals, clinics and ambulance stations across the South West are urging local politicians to put their […]
Plymouth City Council have become the third South West council to sign up to UNISON’s ‘Stop the Spread’ pledge, a key initiative by the UK’s biggest trade union to support care workers in the fight against coronavirus. The pledge provides Plymouth’s key workers, in the frontline fight against coronavirus, with important employment protections. These include […]
Zooming into homes across the South West, our regional education team have trained 107 new workplace representatives so far this year.
Staff facing job losses at Bristol Energy say that they feel “betrayed” by Mayor Marvin Rees over his Council’s handling of the energy company’s sale, says UNISON. In September of this year, a deal was announced to sell the majority of Bristol Energy’s operations to Together Energy. At the time, Bristol Council claimed this was […]
Health staff across the South West – including nurses, paramedics, cleaners, domestics and porters – are taking part in two days of campaigning urging the government to give an early, significant pay rise of at least £2,000 to every worker in the NHS. Staff in UNISON branches based in NHS hospitals, ambulance stations and clinics […]
Proposed changes to the structure of local government across Somerset must bring about improvements to services and not simply provide cover for further damaging cuts, says UNISON today (Thursday). Later today, district councillors are due to meet to approve a plan to create a new system for councils across Somerset, in a direct challenge to […]
Dorset Council have today, Wednesday, signed up to UNISON’s ‘Stop the Spread’ pledge, a key initiative by the UK’s biggest trade union to support care workers in the fight against coronavirus. The commitments include key safety measures, such as priority testing for social care workers and providing life saving personal protective equipment. In addition, the […]
School support staff have been treated to care packages from UNISON as pupils have returned to the classroom. The packages were delivered to schools across Plymouth and Torbay over the last week. The packages are part of a wider campaign from the UK’s biggest trade union to have more health and safety representatives in the […]
UNISON members have been on the frontline throughout the pandemic, keeping the country running. Our staff are going to lace up their running shoes, get the bikes out the shed and clock up as many miles as we can to fundraise for you. Over twenty members of regional staff have signed up for Step Up September, […]
A pay claim submitted by UNISON to the government today would see of at least £2,000, for NHS staff, by the end of this year.
Responding to a joint statement by UK chief medical officers about school reopening, UNISON head of education Jon Richards said today (Sunday): “This acknowledgement of the transmission risk between staff in schools underlines why it’s vital they should be able to wear face coverings. “It’s still unclear why government guidance won’t allow them, when they’re recommended for other […]
