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A meeting of the Scottish Unison union local government branches last Friday agreed to reject the employers’ latest pay offer.

The London Fire Authority has announced a 15 percent budget cut on all non-front line services. This has led to management proposals to make 28 staff redundant in six months, including three Unison shop stewards.

Do you want to find out how your union is being run? Well, be prepared to stump up over £500. That is the dangerous conclusion of a court case brought by the Unison union against leading activist Yunus Bakhsh.

Over 2,000 Kirklees Unison members met last week at Huddersfield football stadium to discuss the council’s proposals on single status.

The leadership of the Unison union in local government met last weekend but failed to have a proper debate over the decision to go to binding arbitration over the pay claim covering workers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Sacked nurse Karen Reissmann won a major victory last week when she was elected to the Unison union’s national executive.

The fight by 600,000 Unison union members in local government in England, Wales and Northern Ireland against poverty pay took a disastrous turn for the worse last week.

Yunus and Tony defend ruling Campaigners for Yunus Bakhsh were angered to hear that Unison is stepping up its attack on him. Yunus was sacked from his job as a nurse for his union activities and is now facing disciplinary action by his own Unison union.

More than 120 delegates from Unison local government branches across Scotland met in Glasgow last week to discuss the way forward for their pay campaign.

Unison union activists were outraged to hear that their union leadership had commenced a disciplinary hearing into Yunus Bakhsh, the highly respected health worker and trade unionist.

Around 60 council workers in the Unison union in Haringey, north London, walked out of work on Tuesday of last week after two union activists were suspended.

Workers in East North East Homes Leeds held a successful day of strike action in defence of their Unison union convenor John McDermott, who has been suspended from work.