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The trade unions share numerous concerns relating to the UK’s exit from the European Union, including the effect on worker and union rights, and the […]

Government plan to replace Human Rights Act is ‘the gravest threat to freedom in Britain since the Second World War’

UNISON members continue the fight for fair pay and the real living wage

And it looks nothing like the government’s original bill The Trade Union Act received Royal assent on 4 May but a whole raft of measures the government wanted to bring in that would have had the potential to weaken trade union organising are not in the Act. Gone are the abolition of DOCAS in the public […]

UNISON members across the UK played a part in protecting their trade union rights

“Of course we’d rather the Bill had never existed, and there is much that is still wrong with it. Even with today’s amendments it […]

Ministers have backed away from an outright ban on facility time across the UK’s public services

‘Now at least UNISON can concentrate on campaigning to protect public sector employees at work and the services they deliver’

The government has announced that it will not continue with its plans to ban union members in the public sector from paying their subs by deductions from their wages. Instead check-off (also known as DOCAS) can continue where unions pay the costs incurred by employers. This follows the three defeats over the bill the government suffered in the […]

Dave Prentis comments on the announcement in the Lords that the government is no longer to stop unions from collecting members’ subs via their pay packets

NEC hears update on Trade Union Bill and agrees EU referendum campaign

We need to keep the pressure on before it returns to the Commons. UNISON members have made a huge difference already – speaking to employers, councillors, MPs, peers and […]

UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis said: "It was great to see the Lords reject some of the attacks on […]

UNISON members will rally in support of motions opposing the Trade Union Bill and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)

The motion against the Trade Union Bill states that the legislation is both an attack on democracy and current good industrial […]