Press releases
UNISON Cymru Wales says there is an onus on Welsh government to immediately lift care workers out of in-work poverty
Welsh government’s Jane Hutt and Shadow Home Secretary, Nick Thomas-Symonds MP, joined public service workers to commemorate victims of the slave trade
Police staff in Wales and England are voting this week on whether to accept a UK government pay offer
Welsh council workers are angry their employers have increased a meagre pay offer by just 0.25 per cent, to 1.75 per cent, significantly below inflation
Education staff have criticised the Welsh government announcement
Powys County Council has announced Heart of Wales Property Service will be dissolved. Services will be brought under direct local authority control
The mental and physical health of a third of people working from home in Wales has deteriorated because of the new ways of working
Careers advisors working with unemployed people and school leavers have voted overwhelmingly to reject proposals to improve their pay by just 1 per cent
A Welsh trade union has today (Tuesday) criticised a 1.5 per cent pay offer for thousands of council workers here as insufficient.
Many low paid, mainly female public service workers in Wales, are hundreds of pounds worse off because of the costs of working from home
Cuban hospitals and medical staff fighting Covid are to benefit from a £12,000 donation from Welsh public service workers. The money has been used to buy surplus medical personal protective equipment (PPE), which will be shipped to Havana from the UK today (Tuesday). Healthcare employees, local government workers and other public service staff answered an […]
Health workers across Wales are appealing to the public this week to back their campaign so NHS staff can receive a proper pay rise before the summer
Karen Loughlin, UNISON Cymru Wales regional secretary 73 per cent of the Welsh public believe the Welsh government should do more to lift children out of poverty. That’s the finding of a Savanta ComRes poll of 1,021 people released today (Friday). The poll was commissioned by public services union, UNISON Cymru Wales, which has made […]
70 per cent of the Welsh public believe companies receiving public money should not be allowed to hire staff on zero-hour contracts. That’s the finding of a Savanta ComRes poll of 1,021 people released today (Friday). The poll, commissioned by public services union, UNISON, also found Welsh people want the next Senedd government to improve […]
72 per cent of the Welsh public would support the creation of a National Care Service, similar to the NHS, to deliver social care for older, disabled and vulnerable people. That’s the finding of a Savanta ComRes poll of 1,021 people released today (Wednesday). The poll, commissioned by public services union, UNISON, also found 90 […]