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These unfair changes will make it much harder for nurses, teaching assistants, midwives and other public sector workers […]

Already, the Lobbying Act has constricted civil society organisations’ ability to protest and cuts in public services and employment tribunal fees have seen the […]

Date

4 October 2015 2:00pm–6:00pm

Location

Oxford Road, Manchester

UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis will be among the speakers at a public meeting tomorrow on resisting the Trade Union Bill

Government plans to restrict trade union rights are “a strikebreaker’s charter” which would undermine the basic civil rights of working people, general secretary Dave Prentis told the union’s national executive council (NEC) in London today.

The government has claimed to be one for ‘working people,’ but as Mr Prentis put it, creating barriers to workers being able to defend […]

Date

2 November 2015 1:30pm

Location

Westminster, London SW1A 0AA

Trying to stop nurses, care workers, teaching assistants, hospital cleaners and town hall staff from paying their union subs directly from their wages is an attack we’ve defeated before and one which we will overcome again.

Unions not too powerful – they’re too weak, say industrial relations academics

Attacking both the right to strike and our ability to organise by threatening to change the way our members can pay their subscriptions are just one more way the government aims to reduce […]

We are the largest civil society organisations in the country and we represent millions of people committed to improving the lives of our fellow […]

Date

9 – 10 September 2015

Location

Curtis Mayfield House, Carliol Square, Newcastle, NE1 6UF

Click on 'join the campaign' on this page: Stop the trade union […]

Singer Grace Petrie joins campaigners in protest against Trade Union Bill

UNISON general secretary welcomes new language of opposition at TUC congress in Brighton today