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About 70 people, including 20 refugees, joined a demonstration in Glasgow against refugees being made homeless by landlords Ypeople last Friday. Speakers included journalist Ako Zada and representatives from the UCU, FBU and Unison unions.

"My Unison branch has booked 100 seats on a regionally organised train. We want to take more people than we did on 26 March last year. The cuts in the NHS are no longer a worry, but a reality. Workers don't want to continue to pay.

The ballots over the local government pension scheme (LGPS) close this week and next in the Unison, GMB and Unite unions. Workers should vote to reject it.

Members of the local government pension scheme (LGPS) are voting on a deal that could end their dispute. Many on the left in the Unison union are coming under pressure to keep quiet about how bad the deal is.

Ballot papers have gone out in the Unison union’s ballot on whether to accept cuts to the local government pensions scheme (LGPS).

Voting in the Unison union’s ballot on the local government pensions deal begins next Tuesday. Activists are gearing up for a campaign to reject the proposals, which will see workers working longer and getting less.

Unison’s local government service group executive is recommending a yes vote in the ballot which starts next week on the government’s pensions deal.

University staff reject pay offer Unison union members in higher education have rejected a 1 percent pay offer by a two to one margin.

There was little debate on pensions at the Unison national conference in Bournemouth last week. The union’s executive did its best to try to move on from the issue.

The Unison union’s annual conference has voted to prepare for strikes over pay in the autumn.

The Unison union will ballot over the local government pensions deal—but it won’t make any recommendation until it has asked members what it should be.

NHS workers in the Unite and Unison unions at Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Trust struck today, Wednesday.