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My name is Alyson and I’m a midday assistant in a special school

My name is Sean Keown and I work as a Pharmacy Technician. My job involves dispensing and checking medicines, counselling patients, and updating computer systems related to the issue of patient medicines.

National Executive Council makes decision on opening day of nomination period

UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis commens on government proposals to prevent people who work in the public sector from paying their union membership fees directly from their wages.

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

Members from across Wales rally outside the Senedd in Cardiff, while the Assembly debates motion opposing Westminster bill

From I ♡unions week to fighting the trade union bill, it’s been a busy few months for UNISON members. We’ve collected just some of the highlights of what you have been doing online.

The Bill has now had both its first and seconds readings in the House of Commons and now moves onto the committee stage.  So, what does this mean for our campaign against it? At the first reading the title of the Bill was read out. That was it. No speeches and no debate. At the […]

Not content with cutting in-work benefits for low paid workers the government has announced plans to make striking for higher pay even more difficult than it already is, if not completely impossible. The Institute for Fiscal Studies says that families with young children could be up to £1,000 a year worse off because of the […]

This is a bad bill but without the labour movement pushing back with passion and vigour, it could have been much worse.

Black members met in Llandudno in late January to debate a range a motions and reaffirm their commitment to building the union and fighting injustice

The issue of losing my tax credits was keeping me awake at night: as a single mum I didn’t know how I was going to provide for my family

Union says that the Bill is designed to ‘stop union reps from carrying out their duties’

Thousands upon thousands of UNISON members – and their families – took time on Sunday to come to Manchester and march

A new law threatens to punish workers if they stand up for their jobs and services