Welsh council workers 22 per cent poorer over last decade

Three of Britain’s biggest unions will today hold a lobby for a fair pay rise outside the Welsh Local Government Association

Grinch visits prominent Welsh MPs

Four prominent Welsh Conservative MPs will receive visits from groups of Grinch lookalikes this week. Public service workers angry at the UK government’s continued seven-year pay cap will invoke the fictional character who famously wanted to ruin Christmas time. They will warn the MPs not to “steal our pay rise.” Healthcare and local authority staff […]

UNISON urges MPs: ‘stick up for your communities’

UNISON Cymru Wales has written to all Conservative MPs urging them to attend a debate in Parliament this afternoon (Monday) on the trade union’s petition to end the seven-year public sector pay cap. The petition has been signed by thousands of people and UNISON has said MPs must stand up for the communities they have […]

All NHS staff need a pay rise that’s above inflation, say health unions

  NHS unions are today (Friday) breaking with tradition and submitting a pay claim directly to the government on behalf of more than one million health workers across the UK. In a letter to the Chancellor, 14 health unions including UNISON, the Royal College of Nursing, the Royal College of Midwives, the Chartered Society of […]

MPs in Wales need to listen to public service workers by lifting the pay cap now, says UNISON

Welsh MPs, Stephen Crabb, Guto Bebb and Alun Cairns, need to listen to public sector workers in their constituencies to end the damaging era of public sector job losses and squeezed services – and scrap the punishing pay cap for everyone once and for all, says UNISON today (Monday). To kick off the next stage of UNISON’s ‘Pay Up Now!’ campaign, UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis has […]