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Over 60 people attended a meeting last week in support of five Liverpool social workers who were suspended following strike action which ended in January.

Ambulance workers in Britain’s biggest health union have threatened to withdraw from Agenda for Change, the national pay and conditions scheme for health workers.

Ballot papers are going out for the Unison national executive elections. Unison United Left is standing a number of candidates.

Walsall branch attacked Local government managers in Walsall, West Midlands, have launched an attack on the Unison union — effectively suspending branch officers and padlocking the union office.

Despite last week’s strike action over pensions being called off, Wakefield Unison local government branch and Wakefield trades council went ahead with their planned lunchtime rally.

Members of the Unison union have voted to re-elect Dave Prentis as their general secretary. Prentis won 76 percent of the vote. The two left wing challengers for the leadership, Jon Rogers and Roger Bannister, won 8 and 17 percent of the vote respectively.

FIVE UNISON union members in Liverpool council are still fighting to overturn suspensions handed out to them by council managers.

Some 1.25 million union members could strike on 23 March. The civil service workers’ PCS union and Unison local government members are balloting for discontinuous action — which would allow a series of strikes — so they could join education unions for futher strikes in April without reballoting

HOSPITAL CLEANERS tore into health minister Lord Warner, at a conference organised by their Unison union in London last week.

"This is a huge move that could lead to a union of two million members. It lays the basis for British unions to be grouped around two centres — public sector workers in Unison, private in T&G-Amicus. It’s being done at great pace. The rumour before the T&G executive meeting was that the timetable is: executive decision now, conference decision in the summer and a ballot in the autumn.

Ballot papers for the Unison general secretary election went out to the union’s 1.3 million members last week.

BALLOT PAPERS for the Unison general secretary election went out this week. National executive member Jon Rogers is standing as the candidate of the Unison United Left. He told Socialist Worker, "The campaign is going well—we’re demonstrating that we have an alternative network inside the union.