UNISON Cymru/Wales will hold its second NHS Health Awards tomorrow (Wednesday 5 July), at the Cardiff City stadium. The union will celebrate the individual contributions of healthcare workers at a gala dinner in the company of Welsh Health Minister Vaughan Gething AM, Andrew Goodall, Chief Executive of NHS Wales and Dave Prentis, general secretary of […]
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UNISON Cymru/Wales is encouraging people to celebrate the principles Jo Cox stood for and support the Great Get Together this weekend. The Foundation named in her honour wants to bring communities together and is inviting people on 16 -18 June to share a barbecue, picnic or bake off, celebrating with fun and humour, all […]
Campaigning public services union will today (Thursday) launch its charter for young people in the company of hot local band The Sandinistas and Cardiff Labour MP Jo Stevens. The event will take place in Cardiff venue Ten Feet Tall at 7pm. The key demands of the #respectyouryouth charter are for a real Living Wage regardless […]
Ambulance workers across Wales will today (Friday) mark the one year anniversary of the collision of two ambulances which resulted in the death of ambulance driver John Clift and seriously injured two colleagues. On 28 April 2016, his patient transport vehicle collided with an urgent care ambulance on the A499 near Pwllheli. Ambulance staff, […]
Public services union, UNISON, is using today’s International Women’s Day (Wednesday) to warn local authorities that overstretched resources in the care sector are depriving the largely female workforce of any dignity at work. A great deal of care is provided for councils by non-profit organisations and the trade union has written to every council in […]
Women, trade unionists and campaigners for equality will travel in their hundreds to a lobby of Parliament today (Wednesday). They are calling for government action to support women born in the 1950s who have been unfairly disadvantaged by the changes to the State Pension arrangements. Their ranks will be swelled by delegations from Wrexham, Rhyl, Anglesey, Swansea […]
UNISON Newport City branch is calling on Newport City Cabinet members to rethink cost saving proposals being made around the social care services as a matter of urgency. Newport City Cabinet is scheduled to meet 21 December to commence the consultation process on the budget. The cost saving proposals being considered include an option to outsource the […]
Cleaners working at the University of South Wales today launch a campaign to tell their employer they deserve to be paid the ‘real’ Living Wage Foundation rate of £8.45 per hour. The cleaning staff are organised by UNISON and work at four sites on University of South Wales campuses in Newport, Treforest, Merthyr Tydfil and […]
Members of public sector union, UNISON Cymru/Wales, have promised a loud and colourful demonstration for affordable pensions for Bangor University support staff today (Thursday 15 September). University support staff from cleaners, to security workers and administrators will gather at 12.30pm at the Memorial Arch by the campus Portio building to protest that low paid workers […]
UNISON’s Listening to you campaign comes to Wrexham Maelor