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

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

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.

TUC mass lobby of Parliament – protect the right to strike

Date
2 November 2015 1:30pm
Location
Westminster, London SW1A 0AA

Event on the UNISON National site.

Prentis urges ‘popular uprising’ in defence of the right to strike

UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis last night called on the labour movement to defend the right to strike.

Article on the UNISON National site.

Government plans for unions are ‘a strikebreaker’s charter’

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.

Article on the UNISON National site.

Prentis to address meeting on resisting Trade Union Bill

The meeting, which has been organised by the Campaign for Trade Union Freedom, the Institute of Employment Rights, the Centre for Labour and Social […]

Article on the UNISON National site.

TUC national demonstration at Conservative Party conference

Date
4 October 2015 2:00pm–6:00pm
Location
Oxford Road, Manchester

Event 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.

Trade Union Bill proves the government is not on the side of working people, says UNISON

“When unions win a pay rise or safer working conditions for their members everyone in the workplace gets to […]

Press release on the UNISON National site.