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Trade Union Bill survey – your right to support at work is being attacked

UNISON is campaigning against the bill. We believe MPs should be focusing on the real problems our country faces […]

Article on the UNISON National site.

Councils condemn trade union bill

Employers across the country join unions in condemning ‘unnecessary and petty’ legislation

Article, News on the UNISON National site.

UNISON welcomes Caerphilly motion on Trade Union Bill

The motion says the bill is an attack on democracy and is socially divisive; it will lead to more confrontational […]

Article on the UNISON National site.

Time for the government to get its priorities straight

Instead of focusing on helping the country at a turbulent time, the government plans to undermine your right to be supported and represented. Will politicians see sense and drop the Trade Union Bill?

General Secretary's blog on the UNISON National site.

Join us in Manchester

On Sunday, it will be just five weeks to the TUC’s demonstration in Manchester marking the opening of the Tory party conference

General Secretary's blog on the UNISON National site.

Academics condemn government’s attack on trade unions as ‘perverse’

They call the government's rationale for its bill "perverse", adding that unions are an important voice for workers, protecting their terms and […]

Article, News on the UNISON National site.

An attack we’ve seen off before

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.

General Secretary's blog on the UNISON National site.

The rights of all workers are under attack – we need a broad civil society coalition to help us protect them

Unions and civil society must unite around a common vision of individual and collective rights that brings together all our aspirations for a good society

General Secretary's blog on the UNISON National site.