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Around 70 people came out to support four Unison branch officials – all members of the Socialist Party – who faced a disciplinary hearing today, Thursday, for issuing a leaflet at last year’s national Unison conference.

The six further education unions – UCU, GMB, Unison, Unite, ACM and ATL – have rejected a 2.5 percent pay offer.

Local government union activists in the Unison union are campaigning for a rejection of the employers’ 2.45 percent pay offer.

Delegates to the Unison union’s health conference last week rebuked their leaders for seeking acceptance of the government’s three-year below-inflation pay offer.

Unison union activist Yunus Bakhsh, who is involved in a bitter battle against his employers, took part in a hearing against his union last week.

Some 20,000 Birmingham council workers in the Unison, Unite, Ucatt and GMB unions are set to strike for two days on Wednesday and Thursday of this week in an ongoing dispute over single status pay cuts.

The Unison union is urging council workers across England and Wales to reject the employers 2.45 percent pay offer.

The government’s determination to make more than a million workers in the NHS accept below inflation pay rises for the next three years met a stormy response at the Unison union’s annual health conference in Manchester this week.

The continuing threat of health privatisation formed an important backdrop to many conference debates.

Over 100 delegates packed into a meeting to hear leading Unison activist Yunus Bakhsh outline the way he is being victimised by his employers for his trade union activities – and how his fight is being undermined by his own union.

Some 20,000 council workers in Birmingham in the Unison, Unite, Ucatt and GMB unions are set to strike for two days on Wednesday 23 and Thursday 24 April in an ongoing dispute over single status pay cuts.

Socialist Worker is backing the United Left and other candidates in the Unison service group executive elections, including: