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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 […]

Shami Chakrabarti, the former director of human rights organisation Liberty, has referred to the proposal as “the gravest threat to freedom in Britain since the […]

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 […]

We didn’t manage to defeat the entire bill, but we did manage to remove several elements of it that would have irrevocably damaged the trade […]

Commenting on the debate today (Wednesday) in the Commons that has seen the government accept many of the Trade Union Bill amendments made last week in the Lords, UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis said: “Without these significant changes, unions representing working people across the UK would have found it hard to continue doing what they […]

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

This is a change that wasn’t in the interest of public service workers, employers or those who rely upon the […]

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 […]

Peers vote for three key changes to the government’s damaging trade union reforms

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

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