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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 […]

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

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

“These measures would have stopped unions from collecting members’ subs via their pay packets. They would also have prevented […]

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

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 continue the fight for fair pay and the real living wage

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

‘The need for stability and reassurance has never been greater,’ says Dave Prentis