Unison Follow

Health workers in England are set to walk out on 13 October—and now we have to fight to make it as big as possible and a focus for opposition to the Tories, argues Annette Mackin

Birmingham city council has announced it is going to cut 6,000 jobs over the next three years.

Britain’s biggest health union today named Monday 13 October as the day for England’s first NHS strike over pay in 32 years.

Health workers in the Unison union have voted to strike against attacks on their pay.

A struggling A&E in London will have to deal will some 8,000 more patients a year after two neighbouring emergency departments were closed last week.

Kirklees Council has suspended the threat to sack and re-engage its staff on new terms and conditions. This comes after Unison members voted by 73 percent to strike in an indicative ballot.

Trade unionists from across Britain gathered in Liverpool this week for the conference of the Trades Union Congress (TUC).

Attacks on pay and conditions have created enormous anger among health workers—but union leaders need to do more to build action that can stop them, writes Annette Mackin

Striking care workers in Doncaster and London brought their struggles together on Tuesday of this week in their fight against low pay and privatisation.

A strike ballot of 70,000 local government workers in Scotland began on Tuesday. The Unison union is recommending a yes vote.  

Vulnerable people and their care workers are losing out in a race to cut costs

Care UK strikers in Doncaster are calling on the Labour Party to back their struggle against the Tories’ NHS privatisation.