Months after promising us negotiations at the end of the 2024 pay round, the government choose to stick with the discredited PRB process for this year. Unsurprisingly, NHS pay is overdue. We’ve been working to highlight all the problems caused by continual delays for members and the service. We want the government to sit down […]
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Union seeks to increase pressure on the government for urgent reform to NHS pay structure. UNISON is escalating its campaign for the government to open talks on NHS pay in England. The move comes after the government reneged on its promise to sit down with unions and employers and fix the problems of the current […]
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Judges have told employers they’ll no longer be able to discipline their staff for taking part in legal strike action in a UK Supreme Court ruling today (Wednesday), says UNISON. The union, which took the case on behalf of care worker Fiona Mercer, says the government must now act quickly to change the law and […]
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Mr Justice Linden has today upheld the claims of UNISON and other unions that the government acted unfairly, unlawfully and irrationally. Employers can no longer use agency staff to fill in for striking workers during industrial action after the High Court ruled that government legislation introduced last year is unlawful, says UNISON today (Thursday). The important […]
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On Monday 22 May at 6pm, join the emergency protest in Westminster to demand that MPs REJECT the Strikes Bill and to demand that opposition parties commit to REPEAL the Strikes Bill. We can’t afford to lose the right to strike. But multi-millionaire Tory politicians are attacking our right to strike for better pay and […]
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